 Wakaso with Ghana in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 July 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tamale, Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Adelaide | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Ashanti Gold | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Elche | 58 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Villarreal B | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Villarreal | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Espanyol | 26 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Rubin Kazan | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | → Celtic (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | → Las Palmas (loan) | 20 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Panathinaikos | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → Granada (loan) | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Alavés | 66 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Jiangsu Suning | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Shenzhen | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | → Eupen (loan) | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Ghana U17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012– | Ghana | 70 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 August 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:28, 4 September 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Mubarak Wakaso ( Arabic: مبارك واكاسو; born 25 July 1990) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Ghana national team.
He spent the better part of his career in Spain, starting out at Elche in 2008 and going on to also represent Villarreal, Espanyol, Las Palmas, Granada and Alavés. He also competed professionally in Russia, Scotland, Greece, China and Belgium.
Wakaso appeared with the Ghana national team at the 2014 World Cup, as well as five Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.