Nii Lamptey
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| Full name | Nii Odartey Lamptey | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 December 1974 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tema, Ghana | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Sekondi Wise Fighters (assistant) | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| Young Corners | ||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Anderlecht | 30 | (9) | |||||||||
| 1993–1994 | → PSV (loan) | 22 | (10) | |||||||||
| 1994–1995 | → Aston Villa (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Coventry City | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Venezia | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1997 | Unión Santa Fe | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Ankaragücü | 10 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1998–1999 | União Leiria | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Greuther Fürth | 36 | (5) | |||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Shandong Luneng | 37 | (7) | |||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Nasr Dubai | ? | (?) | |||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Asante Kotoko | ? | (?) | |||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Jomo Cosmos | ? | (?) | |||||||||
| Total | 169 | (32) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1991–1996 | Ghana | 38 | (8) | |||||||||
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| 2009– | Sekondi Wise Fighters (Assistant) | |||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Nii Odartey Lamptey (born 10 December 1974) is a former Ghanaian professional footballer and current assistant manager of Sekondi Wise Fighters. During his career he played as a striker from 1990 until 2008 notably for Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Coventry City and the Ghana national football team.
He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time. Lamptey has been used as a byword for a cautionary tale of putting too much pressure on young players to be successful.
He also played for Anderlecht, Venezia, Unión Santa Fe, Ankaragücü, União Leiria, Greuther Fürth, Shandong Luneng, Al-Nassr, Asante Kotoko and Jomo Cosmos.
He built a school at Accra- Ghana called Glow - Lamp International School
Nii Lamptey was born in Tema, but grew up in the two biggest Ghanaian cities, Accra and Kumasi. He had a miserable childhood, as his parents abused and neglected him. His father was an alcoholic who often beat and lashed him and sometimes burnt his body with cigarettes. Lamptey often refused to spend the nights home and frequently skipped school, only finding refuge in football. Soon, he began to excel in this sport, despite his alcoholic father heckling him and hurling verbal abuse from the sidelines whenever he watched his son play football.
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