Kwame Karikari

Karikari in Jersey AIK ( April 2013 )

Kwame Amponsah Karikari ( born January 21, 1992) is a Ghanaian football player. The striker made ​​his debut in 2011 in the Swedish professional football.

Career

Karikari played at International Allies FC, ​​for whom he took in the second division of his homeland. There motorsport director Jens Andersson and Björn Wesström chief scout watched him from the Swedish tradition AIK and brought the striker just before the transfer window closed end of March 2011 after one and a half years in the Ghanaian adult population to Sweden, where he signed a contract valid until 2014. He replaced the lent at the beginning of Pontus Engblom and Yussuf Saleh as the third attacker and was considered by the media as " Crown Prince " striker Mohamed Bangura for African and Ibrahim Bangura Teteh. At the beginning of the season 2011 he came on as a substitute therefore irregular in Allsvenskan sporadic short sessions. After an injury Mohamed Banguras he finally celebrated in July in the game against Gefle IF be for new face.

In August, Ibrahim Bangura left the club in the direction of Turkey, in the wake Karikari inherited it on the striker position. On 15 August, he scored in a 1-0 away win at IFK Norrköping with the game-winning hit his first competitive goal for AIK. By the end of the season he alternated between the bench and starting lineup. Shortly before the start of the following season, the club gave him to the second division Degerfors IF, in the Superettan with them until the end of the loan period in summer to the regulars and was with six goals this season one of the most successful shooters of the club - until the end of the season outstripped him within the association only Christopher Brandeborn and Peter Samuelsson. Initially at AIK key players and especially the surprising 2-0 away victory against CSKA Moscow 0-1 first-leg defeat in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League 2012/13 as a scorer for the 1-0 lead at the decisive place in the group phase involved, he found himself frequently at the end of the season on the bench again. Nevertheless, he was successful as a scorer in the European Cup against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, despite over a 1-0 success and a 1-1 draw against former European champions PSV Eindhoven he missed with the team led by Martin Kayongo - Mutumba, Daniel Majstorovic, Nils- Eric Johansson and Celso Borges as a group Last getting ahead in the competition.

At the beginning of the season came in 2013 at Karikari AIK does not have the role of complement footballer in question. In early July, therefore, met the club a beginning from July 22, lending contract with the Turkish club Balikesirspor, which also includes a purchase option.