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Thomas Partey
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Ghanaian footballer (born 1993)
Key facts
- 2012
- Leganés
- 2016
- Ghana
- 2025
- Villarreal
- Full name
- Thomas Teye Partey
- Date of birth
- ( 1993-06-13 ) 13 June 1993 (age 32)
- Place of birth
- Krobo Odumase , Ghana
- Height
- 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Position
- Defensive midfielder
- Current team
- Villarreal
- 2011 2012
- Odometah
- 2012 2013
- Atlético Madrid
- Years
- Team
- 2013 2020
- Atlético Madrid
- 2013 2014
- → Mallorca (loan)
- 2014 2015
- → Almería (loan)
- 2020 2025
- Arsenal
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ghana
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Villarreal CF
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Ghana
- Mass
- 78
- Image
- ATL-Madrid-Lokomotiv001-Thomas (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 185
- Significant event
- accused
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- Commons category
- Thomas Partey
- birth name
- Thomas Teye Partey
- name in native language
- Thomas Partey
- date of birth
- 1993-06-13
- sport number
- 16
- start of work period
- 2013-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- social media followers
- 535782
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Teye Partey (born 13 June 1993) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Villarreal and the Ghana national team.
Partey began his professional career at Spanish club Atlético Madrid in 2013, going on loan to Mallorca and Almería, and returned to Atlético in 2015, with whom he won the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in 2018, as well as appearing in the 2016 UEFA Champions League final. In 2020, he joined Arsenal in a transfer worth £45 million (€50 million), becoming the most expensive Ghanaian player of all time. He played 167 games over five seasons at Arsenal, winning the Community Shield in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Partey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.