Emmanuel Adebayor

togolese soccer player

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Emmanuel Adebayor is a professional soccer player from Togo who had a career playing for various top European clubs. He is notable as one of Togo's most accomplished athletes in international football.

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Sports profile

Sport: Soccer
Position: Forward
Nationality: Togo

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Emmanuel
Gender: male
Citizenship: Togo
Place of birth: Lomé
Occupation: association football player
Languages spoken: French
Participant in: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
Sport: association football
Member of team: AC Semassi F.C.
Position played: forward
League: Premier League
Country for sport: Togo
Mass: 84
Official website: www.emmanueladebayor.com
Image: Emmanuel Adebayor1.jpg
Height: 191

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Commons category: Emmanuel Adebayor
date of birth: 1984-02-26
sport number: 1
birth name: Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor
name in native language: Emmanuel Adebayor
start of work period: 1997-00-00
social media followers: 250334

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Encyclopedic overview

Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor listen( French pronunciation: [ɛmanɥɛl adəbɛjɔʁ]; born 26 February 1984) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a striker. During his career, he played for English clubs Arsenal, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace, as well as French side Metz, Monégasque team Monaco, Spanish team Real Madrid, Turkish clubs İstanbul Başakşehir and Kayserispor, Paraguay's Club Olimpia and Togolese club Semassi.

He was voted African Footballer of the Year for 2008 while playing at Arsenal, and during his latter career, when he joined Olimpia Asunción in 2020, he became the highest paid player in Paraguay.

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