Gideon Mensah (footballer, born 1998)
{{short description|Ghanaian footballer (born 1998)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Gideon Mensah
| image = Mensah aja asse 2425.png
| upright =
| caption = Mensah with Auxerre in 2025
| full_name = Gideon Mensah{{cite web |url=https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce44/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf |title=FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Ghana (GHA) |publisher=FIFA |page=14 |date=15 November 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|7|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Accra, Ghana
| height = 1.78 m{{Soccerway|gideon-mensah/435960}}
| position = Left-back[https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/gideon-mensah/ Profile at WorldFootball], worldfootball.net
| currentclub = Auxerre
| clubnumber = 14
| years1 = 2015–2016
| clubs1 = WAFA
| caps1 = 8
| goals1 = 0
| years2 = 2016–2017
| clubs2 = FC Liefering
| caps2 = 47
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2017–2022
| clubs3 = Red Bull Salzburg
| caps3 = 0
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 2019
| clubs4 = → Sturm Graz (loan)
| caps4 = 15
| goals4 = 0
| years5 = 2019–2020
| clubs5 = → Zulte Waregem (loan)
| caps5 = 19
| goals5 = 0
| years6 = 2020–2021
| clubs6 = → Vitória de Guimarães (loan)
| caps6 = 13
| goals6 = 0
| years7 = 2021–2022
| clubs7 = → Bordeaux (loan)
| caps7 = 23
| goals7 = 0
| years8 = 2022–
| clubs8 = Auxerre
| caps8 = 62
| goals8 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2019–
| nationalteam1 = Ghana
| nationalcaps1 = 31
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| club-update = 20 December 2024
| nationalteam-update = 24 March 2025
}}
Gideon Mensah (born 18 July 1998) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for {{French football updater|Auxerre}} club Auxerre and the Ghana national team.
Club career
=Red Bull Salzburg=
File:FC RB Salzburg versus Chelsea FC (Testspiel 31. Juli 2019) 41.jpg
In January 2019, Mensah joined Sturm Graz on loan until the end of the season.{{cite web|title=GIDEON MENSAH JOINS STURM GRAZ|date=10 November 2023 |url=https://www.redbullsalzburg.at/en/fc-red-bull-salzburg/news/saison_2018_19/gideon-mensah-joins-sturm-graz.html|publisher=Red Bull Salzburg|language=en}} On 29 August 2019, he was then loaned out to Belgian club Zulte Waregem for the 2019–20 season.[https://www.goal.com/en/news/gideon-mensah-ghanaian-fullback-joins-zulte-waregem-from-red/1imbx0qvmb5t11ee0i6wzqxm8w Gideon Mensah: Ghanaian fullback joins Zulte Waregem from Red Bull Salzburg], goal.com, 29 August 2019
== Loan to Bordeaux ==
On 3 August 2021, Mensah joined Bordeaux on a season-long loan with an option to buy until the end of the 2021–22 Ligue 1 season.{{Cite web|title=Gideon Mensah rejoint le Club|url=https://girondins.com//news/32332/gideon-mensah-rejoint-le-club|access-date=3 August 2021|website=Girondins.com}}
=Auxerre=
On 12 August 2022, Mensah signed a three-year contract with Auxerre.{{cite web|publisher=Auxerre|url=https://www.aja.fr/gideon-mensah-est-auxerrois|title=GIDEON MENSAH EST AUXERROIS !|date=12 August 2022|access-date=16 August 2022|language=fr}}
International career
Mensah made his debut for the Ghana national team in the 2021 AFCON qualifier against South Africa in 2019.{{Cite web|last=Sienu|first=Sheikh Tophic|date=6 September 2021|title=WCQ 2022: Gideon Mensah earns Ghana start against South Africa|url=https://footballmadeinghana.com/2021/09/06/wcq-2022-gideon-mensah-earns-ghana-start-against-south-africa/|access-date=26 January 2022|website=Football Made In Ghana|language=en-US|archive-date=26 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126162547/https://footballmadeinghana.com/2021/09/06/wcq-2022-gideon-mensah-earns-ghana-start-against-south-africa/|url-status=usurped}}
He was part of the Ghana national team in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that suffered elimination at the group stage of the competition.{{Cite web|title=Gideon Mensah returns to Bordeaux after Ghana's exit from Afcon|url=https://footballghana.com/gideon-mensah-returns-to-bordeaux-after-ghanas-exit-from-afcon|access-date=26 January 2022|website=Footballghana|language=en}}{{Cite news|title=Ghana dumped out of Afcon by Comoros|language=en-GB|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59947164|access-date=26 January 2022}}
He was selected for the Ghanaian 2022 FIFA World Cup squad and started in the Group H match against South Korea.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/28/south-korea-ghana-world-cup-group-h-match-report|title=Kudus doubles up to edge Ghana past South Korea in World Cup thriller|date=28 November 2022|access-date=14 January 2025|work=The Guardian|last=Ames|first=Nick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119092244/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/28/south-korea-ghana-world-cup-group-h-match-report|archive-date=19 January 2024|url-status=live|location=Education City Stadium}}
Career statistics
=Club=
{{Updated|match played 17 May 2024}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | ||||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| WAFA
|2016 |8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 15 | 0 | |||
| rowspan="4"|FC Liefering
|rowspan="3"|2. Liga |22 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 22 | 0 | ||||
| 2017–18
|18 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 18 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–19
|7 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 7 | 0 | ||||
| colspan="2"|Total
!47 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 47 | 0 | ||||
| rowspan="3"|Red Bull Salzburg
|rowspan="2"|Austrian Football Bundesliga |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20
|0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | |||
| colspan="2"|Total
!0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sturm Graz (loan)
|Austrian Football Bundesliga |15 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Zulte Waregem (loan)
|19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 23 | 0 | |||
| Vitória de Guimarães (loan)
|22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 23 | 0 | ||
| Bordeaux (loan)
|23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 23 | 0 | |||
| rowspan="3"|Auxerre
|Ligue 1 |26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 27 | 0 | |||
| 2023–24
|26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 27 | 0 | |||
| colspan="2"|Total
!52 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 54 | 0 | |||
| colspan="3"|Career total
!186 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 193 | 0 |
=International=
{{updated|match played 24 March 2025}}{{NFT|id=76141}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year !National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals | ||
| rowspan="7"|Ghana
|2019 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024 | 9 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| colspan="2"|Total | 31 | 0 |
|---|
Honours
Auxerre
- Ligue 2: 2023–24{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=11 May 2024 |title=Football : champion de Ligue 2, l’AJ Auxerre est officiellement de retour dans l’élite |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/football/football-champion-de-ligue-2-laj-auxerre-est-officiellement-de-retour-dans-lelite-11-05-2024-LTC2TBRFPFFCPNNE5DNC52DENM.php |access-date=11 May 2024 |website=Le Parisien |language=fr-FR}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Gideon Mensah}}
- [https://www.aja.fr/joueur/gideon-mensah/ Gideon Mensah] at AJ Auxerre {{in lang|fr}}
- {{LFP Ligue 1|new_id=2_94516|old_id=gideon-mensah}}
- {{Soccerway|gideon-mensah/435960}}
- {{NFT|76141}}
- {{Instagram}}
{{AJ Auxerre squad}}
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{{Ghana squad 2023 Africa Cup of Nations}}
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