Samuel Amofa
{{Short description|Ghanaian professional footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
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| club-update = 7 September 2021
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| clubs1 = Liberty Professionals
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| years1 = 2019–
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| currentclub = Liberty Professionals
| position = Defender
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| birth_place = Berekum, Bono, Ghana
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1999|3|23|df=y}}
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}}Samuel Amofa (born 23 March 1999) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as defender for Liberty Professionals.{{Cite web|title=Samuel Amofa - Soccer player profile & career statistics - Global Sports Archive|url=https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/samuel-amofa/312499/|access-date=2021-09-15|website=globalsportsarchive.com}}{{Cite web|title=Samuel Amofa returns to Liberty professionals training ahead of Kotoko trip|url=https://ghanaguardian.com/samuel-amofa-returns-to-liberty-professionals-training-ahead-of-kotoko-trip|access-date=2021-09-15|website=The Ghana Guardian News|language=en}}
Career
Born in Berekum, Brong-Ahafo, Amofa started his career with Dansoman-based team Liberty Professionals in 2019 and immediately established himself as one of the two centre-back pair. He made his debut on 31 March 2019, playing the full 90 minutes of a 3–1 loss to West African Football Academy in the 2019 GFA Normalization Committee Special Competition.{{Cite web|title=Match Report of West Africa Football Academy SC vs Liberty Professionals FC - 2019-03-31 - GFA Normalization Special Competition - Global Sports Archive|url=https://globalsportsarchive.com/match/soccer/2019-03-31/west-africa-football-academy-sc-vs-liberty-professionals-fc/1611207/|access-date=2021-09-15|website=globalsportsarchive.com}} He played 12 out of 14 matches helping the club to a third-place finish in Group B. He continued to play more matches by playing 13 of 15 league matches for 2019–20 season before the league was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.{{Cite web|last=Osei|first=Bernard Esar Ebo|date=29 December 2019|title=Liberty Professionals come from behind to snatch late draw against Legon Cities FC|url=https://citisportsonline.com/2019/12/29/liberty-professionals-come-from-behind-to-snatch-late-draw-against-legon-cities-fc/|access-date=16 September 2021|website=Citi Sports Online}}{{Cite web|last=Appiah|first=Samuel Ekow Amoasi|date=23 January 2020|title=GHPL: David Ocloo Returns To Liberty Professionals, Prepares Team For WAFA Encounter|url=https://www.modernghana.com/sports/981031/ghpl-david-ocloo-returns-to-liberty-professionals.html|access-date=16 September 2021|website=Modern Ghana}} In the 2020–21 season, Amofa played 27 league matches, starting in all of those matches.{{Cite web|last=Osman|first=Abdul Wadudu|date=24 April 2021|title=Match Report : Liberty Professionals 2-0 Berekum Chelsea - Liberty thump Bibires to move out of danger|url=https://footballmadeinghana.com/2021/04/24/match-report-liberty-professionals-2-0-berekum-chelsea-liberty-thump-bibires-to-move-out-of-danger/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424171326/https://footballmadeinghana.com/2021/04/24/match-report-liberty-professionals-2-0-berekum-chelsea-liberty-thump-bibires-to-move-out-of-danger/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 April 2021|access-date=16 September 2021|website=Football Made In Ghana}}
References
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External links
- {{GSA player|samuel-amofa/312499}}
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Category:Men's association football defenders
Category:Ghanaian men's footballers
Category:Liberty Professionals F.C. players
Category:Ghana Premier League players
Category:21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen
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