Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kwame Bonsu[1] | ||
Date of birth | 25 September 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Buduburam, Ghana | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Anokye Stars | |||
Heart of Lions | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2013 | Heart of Lions | 22 | (4) |
2013 | → FC Rosengård (loan) | 8 | (2) |
2014–2015 | Mjällby AIF | 39 | (2) |
2015–2017 | Gefle IF | 42 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Asante Kotoko | ||
2019–2020 | Espérance ST | 17 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Ceramica Cleopatra | 45 | (0) |
2023 | Al Bataeh | 10 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2019– | Ghana | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2019 |
Kwame Bonsu (born 25 September 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder. He has had previous spells in Sweden with Gefle IF, Mjällby AIF, Rosengård and for Asante Kotoko in his home country Ghana.
At the age of 17 Bonsu got a contract to play for the Ghanaian premier league team Heart of Lions in the 2012/13 season By the end of the season he had played 22 games and scored 4 goals for the Ghanaian premier club.[2][3]
In 2013 whilst playing for Heart of Lions based in Kpando, Kwame secured a loan deal to play in Sweden for Malmo team FC Rosengard. He played eight league matches and scored two goals for Rosengård, both goals scored on 7 September 2013 in a 2–1 win over Hässleholms IF.
His performances for Heart of Lions secured him a permanent contract to play for Mjallby AIF in the 2014/15 season. Bonsu played a total of 39 matches, scoring two goals for Mjällby AIF.[4] He then signed a three-year contract with Gefle IF in July 2015 after leaving Mjällby AIF.[5]
He played 42 league matches between 2015 and 2017 until a career-threatening incident in which he was accused of assaulting his then wife Maria Magnusson.[6][7]
The former IF Gafle midfielder moved back to Ghana to join Asante Kotoko in October 2018 after serving a jail sentence of 1 year, 10 months for sexually assaulting his wife in Sweden.[8][6]
He played a key role in the team's impressive run in the CAF Confederation Cup as they progressed to the group stages of the cup for the first time in 11 years.[9][10] He also helped the club to win the Normalization Committee Tier one cup.[11][12][7]
Due to his performance for Asante Kotoko in the CAF Confederation 2019 Competition,[7] he secured a move to Tunisian League giants Espérance Sportive de Tunis July 2019.[13]
He played in 15 matches out of 26 matches, of which he started 14 matches as Espérance ST won the 2019–20 Tunisian Ligue[14]
Bonsu made his debut for the Ghana national football team on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Mauritania.[15]