Matthew Amoah

Matthew Amoah earns my respect through the numbers: twelve goals in forty-five appearances for Ghana between 2002 and 2011, with one of Africa's strongest football nations. Consistency at international level over nearly a decade is no accident. At 1.77 m he wasn't a towering striker, which tells me he relied on positioning and intelligence as much as raw power. I'm drawn to the arc of a kid from Tema rising onto the global stage. Too often African players get reduced to athleticism, but a striker who lasted that long for the national team was clearly thinking the game, not just running it.

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Name (English)

Matthew Amoah

Name (Japanese)

マシュー・アモア

Reading

ましゅー・あもあ

Born

October 24, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Amoah
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313725

Tags

• Greater Accra Region
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.