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Gerald Asamoah

Personal information
Full name	Gerald Asamoah
Date of birth	3 October 1978 (1978-10-03) (age 31)
Place of birth	Mampong, Ghana
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Right winger Striker
Club information
Current club	Schalke
Number	14
Youth career
0000–1990	SG Borken
1990–1994	BV Werder Hannover
1990–1998	Hannover 96
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–1999	Hannover 96	21	(4)
1999–	Schalke	277	(44)
National team‡
2001–2006	Germany	43	(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 March 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 September 2006

Gerald Asamoah ([ˈgeːʁalt ˌazaˈmoːa], born 3 October 1978 in Mampong, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-born German footballer.^[1] He plays as a forward for Schalke, a team he has been with since 1999.

Football career

Born in Ghana, Asamoah and his family immigrated to Germany in 1990. He first played for Hannover 96 before moving to Schalke in 1999.

Asamoah made his debut for Germany in 2001 against Slovakia, making him the first black player to ever play for the side (however, Erwin Kostedde and Jimmy Hartwig, two previous internationals, had one black and one white parent). He scored on his debut, and went on to play in the 2002 and 2006 World Cups.

Personal

• Asamoah is married and has two children, twins Jada and Jaden (born 26 February 2007).
• He suffers from a heart condition, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). In his case, the flesh lobe that separates the right and left heart chambers is extremely thick, which can cause an arrhythmic heartbeat.
• Gerald's brother |Lewis last played for 1. FC Wülfrath and his cousin Emmanuel plays for the U-17 from FC St. Pauli.^[2]

Honours

• Schalke 04:
  • German Cup 2001, 2002
  • German League Cup 2005
  • UEFA Intertoto Cup 2003, 2004

• Germany:
  • 2002 FIFA World Cup Runner-up
  • 2005 Confederations Cup Bronze medallist
  • 2006 FIFA World Cup Bronze medallist

References

External links

• Career stats at Fussballdaten.de (German)

Germany squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup Runners-up 1 Kahn • 2 Linke • 3 Rehmer • 4 Baumann • 5 Ramelow • 6 Ziege • 7 Neuville • 8 Hamann • 9 Jancker • 10 Ricken • 11 Klose • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Kehl • 16 Jeremies • 17 Bode • 18 Böhme • 19 Schneider • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Metzelder • 22 Frings • 23 Butt • Coach: Völler

Germany squad – 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Third Place 1 Kahn • 2 Hinkel • 3 Friedrich • 4 Huth • 5 Owomoyela • 6 Engelhardt • 7 Schweinsteiger • 8 Frings • 9 Hanke • 10 Deisler • 11 Brdarić • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Ernst • 16 Hitzlsperger • 17 Mertesacker • 18 Borowski • 19 Schneider • 20 Podolski • 21 Schulz • 22 Kurányi • 23 Hildebrand • Coach: Klinsmann

Germany squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup Third Place 1 Lehmann • 2 Jansen • 3 Friedrich • 4 Huth • 5 Kehl • 6 Nowotny • 7 Schweinsteiger • 8 Frings • 9 Hanke • 10 Neuville • 11 Klose • 12 Kahn • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Hitzlsperger • 16 Lahm • 17 Mertesacker • 18 Borowski • 19 Schneider • 20 Podolski • 21 Metzelder • 22 Odonkor • 23 Hildebrand • Coach: Klinsmann