Kwame Bonsu
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 Bonsu with Gefle IF in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kwame Bonsu[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 25 September 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Buduburam, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Jandal | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Anokye Stars | |||
| Heart of Lions | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2013 | Heart of Lions | 22 | (4) |
| 2013 | → FC Rosengård (loan) | 8 | (2) |
| 2014–2015 | Mjällby AIF | 39 | (2) |
| 2015–2017 | Gefle IF | 42 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Asante Kotoko | 16 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | Espérance ST | 24 | (3) |
| 2020–2022 | Ceramica Cleopatra | 45 | (1) |
| 2023 | Al Bataeh | 10 | (0) |
| 2024 | Naft Al-Basra | 22 | (1) |
| 2024–2025 | Al-Ain | 31 | (0) |
| 2025– | Al-Jandal | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019– | Ghana | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 26 March 2019 | |||
Kwame Bonsu (born 25 September 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Arabian club Al-Jandal. He has had previous spells in Sweden with Gefle IF, Mjällby AIF, Rosengård and for Asante Kotoko in his home country Ghana.
Youth career (Heart of Lions)
At the age of 17 Bonsu got a contract to play for the Ghanaian premier league team Heart of Lions in the 2012/13 season By the end of the season he had played 22 games and scored 4 goals for the Ghanaian premier club.[2][3]
Career in Sweden
In 2013 whilst playing for Heart of Lions based in Kpando, Kwame secured a loan deal to play in Sweden for Malmo team FC Rosengard. He played eight league matches and scored two goals for Rosengård, both goals scored on 7 September 2013 in a 2–1 win over Hässleholms IF.
His performances for Heart of Lions secured him a permanent contract to play for Mjallby AIF in the 2014/15 season. Bonsu played a total of 39 matches, scoring two goals for Mjällby AIF.[4] He then signed a three-year contract with Gefle IF in July 2015 after leaving Mjällby AIF.[5]
He played 42 league matches between 2015 and 2017 .[6][7]
Asante Kotoko
The former IF Gafle midfielder moved back to Ghana to join Asante Kotoko in October 2018.[8][6]
He played a key role in the team's impressive run in the CAF Confederation Cup as they progressed to the group stages of the cup for the first time in 11 years.[9][10] He also helped the club to win the Normalization Committee Tier one cup.[11][12][7]
Espérance Sportive de Tunis
Due to his performance for Asante Kotoko in the CAF Confederation 2019 Competition,[7] he secured a move to Tunisian League giants Espérance Sportive de Tunis July 2019.[13]
He played in 15 matches out of 26 matches, of which he started 14 matches as Espérance ST won the 2019–20 Tunisian Ligue[14]
Saudi Arabia
On 24 August 2024, Bonsu joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Ain.[15]
International
Bonsu made his debut for the Ghana national football team on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Mauritania.[17]