Richard Kingson
Kingson with Ghana in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Richard Paul Franck Kingson | ||
| Date of birth | 13 June 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
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Current team
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Great Olympics | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1996 | Great Olympics | 0 | (0) |
| 1996–2005 | Galatasaray | 27 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | → Sakaryaspor (loan) | 21 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | → Göztepe (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | → Antalyaspor (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | → Elazığspor (loan) | 20 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Ankaraspor | 4 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Hammarby (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Birmingham City | 1 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Wigan Athletic | 4 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Blackpool | 20 | (0) |
| 2013 | Doxa Katokopias | 10 | (0) |
| 2014 | Balıkesirspor | 13 | (0) |
| 2015– | Great Olympics | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 1996–2012 | Ghana | 90 | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC). |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC).
Richard Paul Franck Kingson (born 13 June 1978) is a professional football goalkeeper who plays for the Ghana Premier League club Great Olympics. He is also known by his Turkish name Faruk Gürsoy and sometimes by the surname Kingston, which is the surname he used in his UEFA registration and also the surname of his brother Laryea Kingston. The different spelling of the surnames is due to "irregularity on his identity documents". Even in his native Ghana, he was quoted as "the man who got the 't' of his surname".
After leaving home country, he played for several clubs in Turkey, for Hammarby in Sweden, and in England for Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic and Blackpool, who released him at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Kingson was the vice-captain for the Ghana national football team. He holds both a Ghanaian passport and a Turkish passport.
Kingson left his native Accra in 1996 to pursue a career in Turkey, where he represented six different clubs, and became a naturalised citizen, taking a Turkish name, Faruk Gürsoy, coming from Faruk Süren and Ergun Gürsoy. His first club in Turkey was Galatasaray S.K., whom he signed for in December 1996 but did not play a single game. On 2004–05 season when he played with Galatasaray again, he was suspended from football for six months after a failed doping test.
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