Richard Annang

Richard Annang ( in the media often Richard Annan, born April 30, 1991 Tema ) is a Ghanaian football player at the position of a defense and winger. Since the year 2010, he is the Romanian first division side FC Vaslui under contract and is eligible for the team since then sporadically to his missions.

Club career

Career start in the home

His career began as an active Annang in his home town of Tema, about 25 kilometers east of the Ghanaian capital Accra. There he was at first mainly active as a street footballer, but still had the ability to Tema Youth Club to change in the coming age, where the club's youth he was employed for several years. After a certain time in the youth section of the club he was first taken around the year 2009 in the cadre of the men's team of the association with gaming operations in the Ghana Premier League, where he has since been trained by Turkish-born Austrian Attila Sekerlioglu. Although nothing is known about the exact inserts Annangs, he has already been wooed at the time of numerous international associations. So were at the versatile player who makes its appearance in addition to various defensive positions as a midfielder and winger, including clubs from Dubai, Sudan, Egypt, England, France, the Netherlands, Germany or Austria interested in the young talent. However, none of the clubs could be the pricing requirements of Tema Youth justice, which generally expected a higher transfer fee. During this time Annang took in the spring or early summer of 2009, at a trial with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim part where the expected transfer fee of 600,000 euros was also judged to be too high. After a further time in Tama Youth, where he also the expanded group of Ghanaian belonged and for this also took part in the WAFU Cup of Nations 2010 due to its local services, the youngster finally succeeded in the summer of 2010 ventured abroad. Prior to that, he completed in March and April 2010, a successful trial at AS Saint -Étienne, which eventually brought him to not be in the team. In January 2010 Annang should also participate in a trial at the Austrian Bundesliga SK Sturm Graz, but had to cancel due to injury prematurely. In addition, should also clubs like Arsenal or Ajax Amsterdam have expressed their interest in Annang.

Change to Romania

In July and August Annang finally signed a contract with FC Vaslui with gaming operations in the highest Romanian football league that were willing to pay a transfer fee of 600,000 euros, although the Romanian side was considered only as a transitional phase for the young Ghanaians. His league debut in Romania was Annang finally on 14 August 2010 in a 2-1 home win against FC Braşov, as played from the start and was replaced from half-time by the Spaniard Alejandro Campano. The Romanians Annang was also the Europa League squad against OSC Lille, where he however just sat on the bench. He did this even at a few league games of his team. On 29 August 2010 he was in the league match against Unirea Urziceni even over the full 90 minutes in use, before he was almost entirely banished from the first team. After only eight-minute short-term mission on 25 September 2010, where he played one at that from the beginning, it was used more in any competitive match of the club from Vaslui by the end of April 2011 and is only sporadically in test matches used. Its performance has been criticized frequently in various Romanian media.

National team career

His career in the Ghanaian National selections began in his youth, when he was first brought into the U- 17 team in his home country. Later still followed a convocation in the U-19 Ghana, for which he also was used. Because of its considerable achievements in his former home club Tema Youth to Annang beginning of 2009 was already in sight for the African Nations Cup in 2009, are entitled to participate in the only local player. Annang was one of three defenders links on a comprehensive provisional list of 40 players Milovan Rajevac coach for the tournament but got Habib Mohammed preference. In the spring of 2010 he took part with an existing domestic players from the country selection on WAFU Cup of Nations and came upon reaching the third place in all five games of his team to use.