_(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
Club
Clarke has played club football in Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname and Jamaica
International
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
- ^ "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
- 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
- Guyanese football biography stubs