Akel Clarke
_(cropped).jpg) Clarke with Guyana at the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Akel Kayode Clarke | ||
| Date of birth | 25 October 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Georgetown, Guyana | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Mount Pleasant Football Academy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2012 | Defence Force | ||
| 2012–2014 | St. Ann's Rangers | ||
| 2014–2017 | Central | ||
| 2017–2018 | North East Stars | ||
| 2018 | Fruta Conquerors | ||
| 2019–2020 | Walking Boyz Company | ||
| 2020- | Mount Pleasant Football Academy | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2011– | Guyana | 6 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2019 | |||
Akel Kayode Clarke (born 25 October 1988) is a professional Guyanese football player. He plays in Jamaica for Mount Pleasant Football Academy.
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]Clarke has played club football in Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname and Jamaica
International
[edit]He made his Guyana national football team debut on 29 May 2011 in a friendly against Barbados, as a starter.[1]
He was selected for Guayana's 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad and started the country's very first game in the history of the tournament against the United States on 18 June 2019.[2]
Despite cancellation of a match in Barbados for the CONCACACF 2021 Gold Cup Qualifiers in March 2020, Clarke maintained a training regiment in preparation for a return to football after COVID-19.[3] Late 2020 he signed with the Red Stripe Premier League club Mount Pleasant Football Academy (based in St. Ann, Jamaica) after release from Western Tigers.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Barbados v Guyana game report". Soccerway. 29 May 2011.
- ^ "United States v Guyana game report". CONCACAF. 18 June 2019. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Clarke still training despite shutdown". Stabroek News. 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Akel Clarke inks deal with Jamaica club". Stabroek News. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
External links
[edit]- Akel Clarke at Soccerway
- Akel Clarke at National-Football-Teams.com
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- 1988 births
- Footballers from Georgetown, Guyana
- Living people
- Guyanese men's footballers
- Guyana men's international footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Guyana Defence Force FC players
- La Horquetta Rangers F.C. players
- Central F.C. players
- AC Port of Spain players
- Fruta Conquerors FC players
- S.V. Walking Boyz Company players
- TT Pro League players
- SVB Eerste Divisie players
- Guyanese expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Trinidad and Tobago
- Expatriate men's footballers in Suriname
- Expatriate men's footballers in Jamaica
- Guyanese people of African descent
- 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Guyanese expatriate sportspeople in Trinidad and Tobago
- Guyanese expatriate sportspeople in Suriname
- Guyanese expatriate sportspeople in Jamaica
- 21st-century Guyanese sportsmen
- Guyanese football biography stubs