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Name
Emmanuel Adebayor

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(3 users)

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70%

Born
1984 (40 years old)

Birth Place

Lomé, Togo

Position
Forward

Status
Retired

Ethnicity
Black

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Height
192 cm

Weight
73 kg

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Agent

Market Value
Free

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Player Manager ID
143898

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Sport

Soccer

Team
_Retired Soccer

2nd Team

League
_No League Soccer

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Yes

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Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor (born 26 February 1984) is a Togolese professional footballer who plays as a striker. He previously played for English clubs Arsenal, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace, as well as French side Metz, Monégasque team Monaco, Spanish team Real Madrid, Turkish clubs İstanbul Başakşehir and Kayserispor, and Paraguay's Olimpia Asunción.

He was voted African Footballer of the Year for 2008 while playing at Arsenal, and during his latter career, he became the most iconic signing in Paraguayan football and the highest paid player in the country's history when he joined Olimpia Asunción in 2020.

Adebayor represented the Togo national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the country's debut, and to date only, appearance at the World Cup. In January 2010, Adebayor was one of the players involved when the Togo team's bus came under gunfire on the way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, after which he retired from national team duty. In 2013, he returned to the Togo team for the 2013 African Cup of Nations in South Africa, where he helped them to qualify for the quarter-finals. He is currently Togo's all-time top goalscorer with 32 goals.