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André Ayew

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André Ayew
Ayew playing for Ghana in 2015
Personal information
Full name André Morgan Rami Ayew[1]
Date of birth (1989-12-17) 17 December 1989 (age 34)[2]
Place of birth Seclin, France
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Winger, forward
Club information
Current team
 Le Havre
Number 28
Youth career
1996–1998 1860 Munich
1999–2006 Nania
2006–2007 Marseille
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2015 Marseille 160 (44)
2008–2009 → Lorient (loan) 22 (3)
2009–2010 → Arles-Avignon (loan) 25 (4)
2015–2016 Swansea City 34 (12)
2016–2018 West Ham United 43 (9)
2018–2021 Swansea City 99 (31)
2018–2019 → Fenerbahçe (loan) 29 (5)
2021–2023 Al Sadd 30 (18)
2023 Nottingham Forest 13 (0)
2023–2024 Le Havre 19 (5)
2024– Le Havre 2 (0)
National team‡
2009 Ghana U20 12 (4)
2007– Ghana 120 (24)
Honours
Representing  Ghana
Men's football
Africa Cup of Nations
Runner-up 2010 Angola
Runner-up 2015 Equatorial Guinea
Third place 2008 Ghana
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Winner 2009 Egypt
Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Winner 2009 Rwanda
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 March 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2024 (UTC)

André Morgan Rami Ayew (/ˈɑːjuː/ (audio speaker iconlisten); born 17 December 1989), also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana,[3][4][5] is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Ligue 1 club Le Havre and serves as captain for the Ghana national team.[6] A miracle-worker with the ball. He is a fast and aggressive midfielder. Confident in setting up the maneuver and skilled finisher. With Ghana he played as an attacking midfielder on the left and in the centre. In 2010 he was included in the list of the best footballers born after 1989 drawn up by Don Balón. Regarded to be one of the best wingers of all time.


Club career

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He began his career at the age of ten with FC Nania Accra in Ghana. However, he had already played in the U-9 youth team of TSV 1860 Munich between 1996 and 1998, where his father was in the professional squad at the time. After four years with the Ghanaian club's youth academy, he was promoted to the club's first team coached by his father. After two more professional years with Nania, during which he also played for the juniors, he returned to France to play for Olympique Marseille, the club where his father celebrated his greatest successes. There he first played in the club's U17 team, scored eleven goals in his first season and trained with the first team alongside Salomon Olembé, Habib Beye and Bixente Lizarazu. In May 2007, he signed a three-year professional contract and became an integral part of Marseille's Ligue 1 team. He played his first professional game on Matchday 3 of the 2007–08 season on 15 August in a 2–1 defeat against Valenciennes, when he came on as a substitute for Modeste M'Bami in the 89th minute. A little later, he made his debut in the Champions League on 24 October 2007 in a home game against Portuguese champions FC Porto. In his first season, Ayew made a total of 13 appearances in the league, cup and Champions League.

For the 2008–09 season, Ayew was loaned to league rivals FC Lorient, where he was used by coach Christian Gourcuff in attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kevin Gameiro and Rafik Saïfi and made his first appearance on 16 August 2008 in the game against FC Lyon. A month later, he scored his first professional goal with the 1-0 opening goal against FC Sochaux. Nevertheless, he was only considered as a substitute player in the following period. He finished the season with 22 league games, in which he scored three goals, and returned to Marseille on 30 June 2009.

Since he was not considered by the new coach Didier Deschamps in Marseille, Ligue 2 newcomers AC Arles-Avignon signed him on 31 August 2009 for a season on loan. With Arles-Avignon, Ayew, who was used there on the right wing, achieved promotion to Ligue 1. He made 25 league appearances and scored four goals in the entire season.

After the successful season at AC Arles-Avignon, Ayew returned to Marseille. After it was initially speculated that he would leave the club, he extended his contract until 2014 in August. In the 2010/11 season, Ayew was able to establish himself at Marseille and was used 18 times in the first half of the season, 16 of which he was in the starting eleven.

In the summer of 2015, Ayew announced his free transfer to Premier League club Swansea City. After convincing performances at Swansea City, he moved to West Ham United for the 2016–17 season. After failing to make his mark at the top-flight club as hoped, Ayew returned to Swansea City in January 2018. With Swansea, he was relegated from the 2017–18 Premier League at the end of the season and spent the following season with Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Istanbul. After returning to Wales, the striker regained his marksmanship and scored fifteen and sixteen league goals in 2019/20 and 2020/21 respectively. Swansea reached the promotion play-offs in each case. After being eliminated in the semi-finals in the first year, the club only lost 2-0 to Brentford in the final of the 2020/21 EFL Championship and thus missed out on a return to the Premier League.

After a year and a half with Qatari club al-Sadd Sports Club, André Ayew signed a contract with English top-flight club Nottingham Forest until the end of the season at the beginning of February 2023. In Nottingham, he will meet coach Steve Cooper, under whom he had already played successfully at Swansea from 2019 to 2021. Since November 2023, he has been playing for French top-flight club Le Havre AC with a three-month break.

International career

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Due to his dual citizenship, André Dede Ayew could have played internationally for both France and Ghana. He initially chose France and played once for the France U18 national team before having to cancel four more call-ups due to injuries. In the men's game, he chose Ghana because of his father's origins, although he was also courted by the French federation. In August 2007, Ghana coach Claude Le Roy called him up to the senior squad for the friendly against Senegal. He came on as a substitute towards the end of the game, which took place at London's New Den Stadium, making his first international appearance. In the following months, he was gradually integrated into the Ghanaian national team, which is preparing for the African Cup of Nations at the beginning of 2008. Ayew finally made the leap into the 23-man national squad and took part in four of the six games. In the semi-finals of the tournament, he was in the starting line-up in the 1-0 defeat against Cameroon. In the end, he finished third with Ghana.

Under the new national coach Milovan Rajevac, Ayew was initially given little consideration. This changed after his excellent performances at the Junior World Championship in Egypt in autumn 2009, where Ghana won the title for the first time. As a result, André Dede Ayew was also back in action for the senior national team. He took part in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, where Ghana lost 1–0 to Egypt in the final, and Ayew played in all five matches and scored once. In May 2010, he was called up to Ghana's squad for the World Cup in South Africa. Ghana survived the preliminary round and beat the USA in the round of 16, with Ayew setting up Ghana's decisive 2-1 winning goal and being named Man of the Match. In the quarter-finals, in which Dede Ayew was unable to play due to a yellow suspension, Ghana lost on penalties to Uruguay and were eliminated. He was voted the second-best young player of the 2010 World Cup behind the German Thomas Müller.

On 13 May 2014, he was called up to the Ghana national football team squad for the 2014 World Cup and scored one goal each in the group stage against the USA and Germany. Ghana finished bottom of the group with one point.

At the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Ayew was part of the Ghanaian squad.


Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 17 March 2024[7]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Marseille 2007–08 Ligue 1 9 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 — 15 0
2010–11 Ligue 1 37 11 1 0 4 2 8 0 1[a] 0 51 13
2011–12 Ligue 1 26 8 2 1 1 0 9 4 1[a] 3 39 16
2012–13 Ligue 1 35 9 2 0 1 0 7 3 — 45 12
2013–14 Ligue 1 25 6 0 0 0 0 4 2 — 29 8
2014–15 Ligue 1 28 10 1 1 1 0 — — 30 11
Total 160 44 8 2 7 2 32 9 2 3 209 60
Lorient (loan) 2008–09 Ligue 1 22 3 2 0 0 0 — — 24 3
Arles-Avignon (loan) 2009–10 Ligue 2 25 4 1 0 0 0 — — 26 4
Swansea City 2015–16 Premier League 34 12 0 0 1 0 — — 35 12
West Ham United 2016–17 Premier League 25 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 26 6
2017–18 Premier League 18 3 2 0 4 3 — — 24 6
Total 43 9 2 0 5 3 0 0 — 50 12
Swansea City 2017–18 Premier League 12 0 0 0 0 0 — — 12 0
2019–20 Championship 44 15 0 0 1 2 — 2[b] 1 47 18
2020–21 Championship 43 16 0 0 1 0 — 3[b] 1 47 17
Total 99 31 0 0 2 2 — 5 2 106 35
Fenerbahçe (loan) 2018–19 Süper Lig 29 5 3 0 — 6 0 — 38 5
Al Sadd 2021–22 Qatar Stars League 21 15 4 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 29 18
2022–23 Qatar Stars League 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1[c] 0 10 3
Total 30 18 4 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 39 21
Nottingham Forest 2022–23 Premier League 13 0 — — — — 13 0
Le Havre 2023–24 Ligue 1 12 3 1 1 — — — 13 4
Career total 466 129 20 5 15 7 42 10 8 5 552 156
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Appearance in Trophée des Champions
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Appearances in Championship promotion play-offs
  3. ↑ Appearances in Qatari Stars Cup

International

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As of match played 26 March 2024[8]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Ghana 2007 5 0
2008 6 0
2009 1 0
2010 17 2
2011 5 0
2012 10 2
2013 3 0
2014 10 4
2015 12 3
2016 2 1
2017 8 2
2018 1 0
2019 8 1
2020 3 4
2021 9 3
2022 13 2
2023 3 0
2024 4 0
Total 120 24
Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ayew goal.
List of international goals scored by André Ayew[8]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 19 January 2010 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola  Burkina Faso 1–0 1–0 2010 Africa Cup of Nations
2 5 September 2010 Somhlolo National Stadium, Lobamba, Swaziland  Swaziland 1–0 3–0 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
3 28 January 2012 Stade de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon  Mali 2–0 2–0 2012 Africa Cup of Nations
4 5 February 2012  Tunisia 2–1 2–1 2012 Africa Cup of Nations
5 16 June 2014 Arena das Dunas, Natal, Brazil  United States 1–1 1–2 2014 FIFA World Cup
6 21 June 2014 Castelão, Fortaleza, Brazil  Germany 1–1 2–2
7 6 September 2014 Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi, Ghana  Uganda 1–1 1–1 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
8 15 October 2014 Tamale Stadium, Tamale, Ghana  Guinea 2–1 3–1
9 19 January 2015 Estadio de Mongomo, Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea  Senegal 1–0 1–2 2015 Africa Cup of Nations
10 27 January 2015  South Africa 2–1 2–1
11 5 February 2015 Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea  Equatorial Guinea 3–0 3–0 2015 Africa Cup of Nations
12 5 June 2016 Stade Anjalay, Belle Vue Maurel, Mauritius  Mauritius 1–0 2–0 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
13 17 January 2017 Stade de Port-Gentil, Port-Gentil, Gabon  Uganda 1–0 1–0 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
14 29 January 2017 Stade d'Oyem, Oyem, Gabon  DR Congo 2–1 2–1 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
15 25 June 2019 Ismailia Stadium, Ismailia, Egypt  Benin 1–1 2–2 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
16 12 October 2020 Mardan Sports Complex, Aksu, Turkey  Qatar 2–1 5–1 Friendly
17 4–1
18 12 November 2020 Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana  Sudan 1–0 2–0 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
19 2–0
20 9 October 2021 Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana  Zimbabwe 3–1 3–1 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
21 11 November 2021 Orlando Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa  Ethiopia 1–0 1–1 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
22 14 November 2021 Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana  South Africa 1–0 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
23 14 January 2022 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon  Gabon 1–0 1–1 2021 Africa Cup of Nations
24 24 November 2022 Stadium 974, Doha, Qatar  Portugal 1–1 2–3 2022 FIFA World Cup

Honours

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Marseille

Al Sadd

Ghana U20

Ghana

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009™: List of Players: Ghana" (PDF). FIFA. 6 October 2009. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "André Ayew: Overview". Premier League. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Dede Ayew looks like top Premier League quality already". All Sports Ghana. 17 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Andre Ayew's Swansea goal trends on Social media". GhanaWeb. 9 August 2015. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dede Ayew scores his second goal in EPL debut for Swansea". Pulse. 15 August 2015. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ayew gives Swansea narrow lead over Barnsley in Championship play-offs - MyJoyOnline.com". MyJoyOnline. 17 May 2021. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "A. Ayew". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ayew, André at National-Football-Teams.com
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  10. ↑ "Ghana vs. Cote D'Ivoire 4 – 2". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Wyatt, Ben (9 February 2008). "Third place". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Andre 'Dede' Ayew named BBC African Footballer of 2011". BBCC Sport. 16 December 2011. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "Football : Prix Marc-Vivien Foe : Que sont devenus les anciens récipiendaires?". adiac-congo.com (in French). 9 July 2020. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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  15. ↑ "CAF – CAF Awards – Previous Editions – 2011". CAF. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Aubameyang, Samatta Rule Africa". CAF. 7 January 2016. Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  17. ↑ Mensah, Kent (9 February 2015). "Ayew wins Afcon 2015 goal king award". goal.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "Orange AFCON 2015 Awards and Best XI". CAF. 12 February 2015. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  19. ↑ "IFFHS (International Federation of Football for History & Statistics". IFFHS. 28 January 2021. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  20. ↑ Sekyere, Eddie K. (30 June 2022). "Andre Ayew, Afena-Gyan and others win Calcio Trade Ball 2022 awards". MX24. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  21. ↑ "Player of the year — Ghana". World Football Net. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Ghana Football Awards: Full list of winners". My Joy Online. 4 July 2021. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  23. ↑ "Andre voted Marseille player of the season". Ghana Football Association. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Andre Ayew named Swansea City Supporters' Player of the Year". Swansea City. 20 August 2020. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  25. ↑ Gaskell, Simon; Wathan, Chris (11 May 2016). "Swansea City player of the year awards LIVE". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  26. ↑ @Ligue1_ENG (February 9, 2024). "[AYEW WINS JANUARY GOAL OF THE MONTH 🇬🇭🎯 ]" (Tweet). Retrieved February 11, 2024 – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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