On the Bundesliga’s official website, you can read this about the famous Anthony Yeboah: “The first African player to win the trophy for the top scorer of the Bundesliga, although he shared it on both occasions. The Ghanaian forward started his career in Germany in the ranks of the second division FC Saarbrücken. In 1990, he signed for Eintracht Frankfurt, playing there for five seasons and scoring 68 goals in 123 games. After a spell in the Premier League, he returned to the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV, where he spent five more seasons until his retirement. From the 2008-2009 season. he was the chairman of Berekum Chelsea, a team in the Ghanaian premier league.”

Anthony Yeboah was Germany’s top scorer in the 1992-93 campaign, with 20 goals (shared with Ulf Kirsten, of Bayern Leverkusen); and in the 1993-1994 season. with 18 goals (Stefan Kuntz from Kaiserslautern also received the award).

Follow the official Bundesliga portal: “Anthony Yeboah is a football legend of Frankfurt. 123 of the Ghana international’s 223 top-flight appearances have been for Eintracht, where he has scored 68 of his 96 goals in the German top-flight. In 1993, and again the following year, he was the Bundesliga’s top scorer, but for all his goal-scoring exploits on the pitch, Yeboah is remembered almost as much for his ground-breaking achievements off it.”

The fight against racism

What did Yeboah do? “In the early 90s, together with Souleymane Sané of SG Wattenscheid and Anthony Baffoe of Fortune Düsseldorf, he wrote an open letter drawing attention to the racism that prevailed at the time both in German football stadiums and in everyday life. . Today, a gigantic picture of Yeboah adorns the facade of a five-story building in Frankfurt, a symbol of the fight against racism and discrimination.

Meanwhile, German-born winger John Yeboah Zamora, born to an Ecuadorean mother, was a surprise addition to Félix Sánchez Bas’s squad for Ecuador’s 2026 South American qualifiers against Bolivia (this Thursday) and Colombia (Tuesday, October 17).

The new winger of Tricolor was born in Hamburg, Germany on June 23, 2000. His parents are from Ghana and Ecuador respectively, and he played his entire career in Europe.

Yeboah of Tri

He started his career in Wolfsburg in 2015, and in February 2018 he signed his first professional contract with that club. Yeboah Zamora made his German Bundesliga debut on 3 November 2018 in a 1–0 home loss against Borussia Dortmund, in the Bundesliga.

The rookie in the Ecuadorian team then left German football and went to the Netherlands, where he played for Venlo, Almere and Willem. Yeboah confirmed his status as a globetrotter by joining Polish side Śląsk Wrocław on a three-season deal. However, a few months ago he joined Raków Częstochowa, the current champion of Poland.

According to the specialized portal Transfermarkt, the footballer mentioned by Sánchez Bas played 27 games for the German minor teams, distributed in the categories up to 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 years, scoring nine goals in all of them, except for the under-16. .

The famous Yeboah

Little is known about Yeboah who recently arrived in La Tri. If he is not related to the famous Ghanaian Anthony Yeboah, who on September 23, 1995 against Wimbledon scored one of the most beautiful goals in the history of the Premier League for Leeds United, at least he shares. with African origins on his father’s side, a famous surname to which the former football player also gave a non-sports reputation.

According to the Bundesliga website, the legacy of the famous Yeboah is remarkable. “Anthony Yeboah’s house is already part of the cultural landscape of Frankfurt. If you go here by train, it’s quite difficult to avoid it,” says Sebastian Beck from the Frankfurt Fan Project, who passes the building every day on his way to work and enjoys the response of his fellow passengers: “The building is a real talking point and many people take pictures of it. ” “That in itself will be music to the ears of Anthony Yeboah, one of the pioneers of German football in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and all other forms of discrimination 30 years ago.” (D)