Junior Agogo
Junior Agogo in National Dress
Manuel " Junior" Agogo ( born August 1, 1979 in Accra ) is a Ghanaian football player. The striker, who took part with the Ghanaian national team at the African Cup in 2008, played in his career in England, the United States, Egypt, Cyprus and Scotland.
Career
Career start
Born in Ghana Agogo lived temporarily with his family abroad, but returned for further education back to his home country. There he attended St. Augustine 's College in Cape Coast. However, he broke the training prematurely to follow his mother to Britain. In North West London, he discovered the football games for themselves.
The talent Agogos fell to the charge of Sheffield Wednesday, who brought him in 1995 as a young player by Yorkshire. Soon he was developing for stem force in the reserve team of the club and came to kick off the season 1997/98 the away match at Newcastle United on his first professional use in the Premier League. Multiple injuries slowed him and prevented from further stakes. After recovering, he was one under coach Danny Wilson only to supplement players. Therefore, the club gave him 1999 each for a short time at the lower division club Oldham Athletic, Chester City, Chesterfield FC and Lincoln City.
Change in the United States
After Agogo in the Premier League had been unable to prevail, he joined the club. In February 2000, he joined the Chicago Fire SC in the North American Major League Soccer. A short time later undertook the club Christo Stoichkov and after only one game use the club was therefore directly Agogo again, so he moved on within the league to Colorado Rapids.
On the side of Paul Bravo, Jorge Dely Valdés and Marcelo Balboa Agogo showed his goal threat in the 2000 and was with ten goals this season top scorer in the vo Glenn Myernick supervised team. As table third in the Western Division, she moved into the play - off matches, but failed in the quarterfinals at the Kansas City Wizards. The following year Tim Hankinson took over as coach. Under his leadership Kam to a more defensive orientation and Agogo was often only a substitute. By the summer, he played ten league games, but scored only one goal of the season.
In June 2001, the San Jose Earthquakes Agogo, the charges in return Chris Carrieri committed. Although he was more successful than scorer with four goals this season until the end of the year, he was also the club Californian hardly on the role of complement footballer in us was only in six of his 14 stakes in the starting lineup. At the end of the season thus separating the club from him.
Return to England
After his return to England, Agogo kept in training at the London club Queens Park Rangers fit. While not intended for the operation of gambling in the first team, the club registered him in the Football League, to enable him stakes in the reserve. After several injury- related failures, he had to ultimately Ian Holloway helping out in the first team. By the end of the season he came so to two brief appearances as a substitute in the Second Division.
Agogo joined in the summer of the Barnet FC in the Conference National. For the club, he scored twenty goals this season and made so that higher class attention to himself in the summer of 2003 he returned to the League football and the Bristol Rovers joined in the thrd Division. Slowed in the first year of an injury, he was only in the 2004/ 05 his goalscoring, as he again scored twenty goals this season. After he had made in the following season attention with 16 goals, sought, among other things Nottingham Forest to a commitment. He also played in the national team of his country.
At the beginning of the 2006 /07 Agogo was still standing at the Bristol Rovers under contract before the two clubs had agreed on a change on 30 August 2006 shortly before the end of the transfer window. In the third-tier Football League One, he contributed seven goals this season to the fact that the club ended the season under new manager Colin Calderwood on the fourth place and moved into the play-offs for promotion to the second division. There, however, the team failed in the semi-finals after a 2-0 Auwärtssieg at Yeovil Town at home with a 2:5 defeat after extra time. In the following season, he distinguished himself on the side of Julian Bennett, Kris Commons, James Perch and Wes Morgan with 13 goals as the best club of internal scorer. As Table Second, the club returned to the second division.
Stations in the Mediterranean
Despite the rise of left Agogo Nottingham Forest and moved beyond the country's borders. When Egyptian club Zamalek SC, he signed a contract in July 2008 with three -year term. The stay at the African professional football, however, was not very successful. Therefore he moved after just one season to Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.
National
In May 2006, Agogo was appointed to the cadre of the Ghanaian national team, and came to use one. However, he missed the part in the 2006 World Cup. Agogo has been nominated for the African Cup in 2008 in his home, and was in this tournament starting eleven for the Black Stars.