Ohene Kennedy

Ohene Kennedy
Personal information
Full name	Ohene Kennedy
Date of birth	28 April 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1992–1993	Mysterious Dwarfs
1993–1997	Al-Nassr
1997–2002	MKE Ankaragücü
2002–2003	Adanaspor
2003–2004	Dhanmondi Club
International career
1994–2000	Ghana
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ohene Kennedy (born 28 April 1973) is a retired Ghanaian football striker.

Club career

Kennedy's golden days were with Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, where he played and scored many goals. He began his professional career at the Mysterious Dwarfs club of Ghana in the 1992–93 season, aged 19.

He joined Al-Nassr in 1993, and soon became one of the team's most valuable players and top scorers. In total, he scored 74 goals for Al-Nassr and won the Saudi league twice; 1994 and 1995, he also was the league's top scorer in 1996 with 14 goals. He had 4 hat-tricks during this period. On 10 November 1996, he scored a hat-trick for Al-Nassr to win 3–2 against Persepolis in the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship quarterfinals.

He later played in Turkey for MKE Ankaragücü and Adanaspor, then in Bangladesh for Dhanmondi Club.

International career

He was part of the Ghanaian 2000 African Nations Cup team, who exited in the quarter-finals after losing to South Africa. He was also a member of the Ghanaian squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Post-retirement

Kennedy went to live in Croydon, England after retirement from football, where he worked for a transportation company called Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD).