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 175 cm 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 the port city of 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.

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 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Origin

Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• Greater Accra Region
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.