Alfred Arthur

{{short description|Ghanaian international football defender|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Alfred Arthur

| image =

| fullname = Alfred Arthur

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|12|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Accra, Ghana

| height = {{convert|1.78|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| position = Left back

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 = 1999–2002

| youthyears2 = 2002

| youthclubs1 = Rainbow Stars

| youthclubs2 = Goldfields Soccer Academy

| years1 = 2003

| years2 = 2004–2007

| years3 = 2008

| years4 = 2008–2009

| years5 = 2009–2010

| years6 = 2010–2013

| years7 = 2013–2016

| clubs1 = Godfields Obuasi

| clubs2 = Ashanti Gold

| clubs3 = Wacker Innsbruck

| clubs4 = Jagodina

| clubs5 = Ashanti Gold

| clubs6 = Berekum Chelsea

| clubs7 = Great Olympics

| caps1 =

| caps2 = 56

| caps3 = 0

| caps4 = 7

| goals1 =

| goals2 = 0

| goals3 = 0

| goals4 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2007

| nationalteam1 = Ghana

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 10 December 2008

| ntupdate = 3 October 2018

}}

Alfred Arthur (born 25 December 1986) is a Ghanaian international football defender.

Career

Started with Michael Essien and Ofosu Amoah in a club called Rainbow Stars (Paa Badu Babies) in the Central Region, Ghana and later joined the Goldfields Soccer Academy from where he graduated to join the senior team Ashanti Gold SC{{Cite web |url=http://www.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/news/?read=20222 |title=(SPORTS- SOCCER) LOCAL: Arthur claims Milovan spy |access-date=2009-10-09 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234924/http://www.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/news/?read=20222 |url-status=dead }} where he will play between 2004 and 2007.

In August 2007 was on trial at German 2. Bundesliga club Greuther Fürth,[http://www.myghanaonline.com/home.php?id=1189&type=news Gossip/Transfers: Appiah & Kuffour for EPL?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503144354/http://www.myghanaonline.com/home.php?id=1189&type=news |date=May 3, 2008 }} in January 2008 Alfred Arthur joined with Ghana 2007 goalkeeper Emmanuel Clottey the Austrian Bundesliga team FC Wacker Innsbruck.[http://fc-wacker-innsbruck.at/index.php?option=com_joomleague&func=showPlayer&p=1&pid=401&Itemid= Spielerinformationen - Alfred Arthur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175609/http://fc-wacker-innsbruck.at/index.php?option=com_joomleague&func=showPlayer&p=1&pid=401&Itemid= |date=2016-03-03 }} on www.fc-wacker-innsbruck.at In August 2008 he joined Serbian SuperLiga club FK Jagodina on a free transfer[http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/soccer/player.php?ID=527 Player Profile : Alfred Arthur] on www.ghanaweb.com In Jagodina he played along with another Ghanaian footballer, Kennedy Boateng, but after one year in Serbia he turned back to Ghana.

In summer 2009 he signed with Ghana Premier League club Ashanti Gold SC. After one season, he moved, in summer 2010, to another Ghanaian top league club Berekum Chelsea.{{Cite web |url=http://ghanasoccernet.com/2010/12/leaders-berekum-chelsea-dominate-ghana-chan-squad/ |title=Leaders Berekum Chelsea dominate Ghana CHAN squad |access-date=2011-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103185615/http://ghanasoccernet.com/2010/12/leaders-berekum-chelsea-dominate-ghana-chan-squad/ |archive-date=2011-01-03 |url-status=dead }}

National team

He made his debut for the Black Stars in a friendly against Brazil on 27 March 2007, by coming on for the last ten minutes as a substitute.[http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/soccer/player.php?ID=527 Player Profile : Alfred Arthur - Ghanaweb.com] He was part of the Ghana squad at the 2011 African Nations Championship having played the last group match against Niger in the 0–1 defeat and consequent elimination.[http://www.cafonline.com/userfiles/file/19.pdf Ghana-Niger match report]