.jpg) Muntari with Inter Milan in 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Suleyman Ali Muntari[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 August 1984[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Konongo, Ashanti, Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Liberty Professionals | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Udinese | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2007 | Udinese | 125 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Portsmouth | 29 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Inter Milan | 66 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | → Sunderland (loan) | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | → AC Milan (loan) | 13 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | AC Milan | 57 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Al Ittihad | 18 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Pescara | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Deportivo La Coruña | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Albacete | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Hearts of Oak | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 347 | (35) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Ghana U20 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2014 | Ghana | 84 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Suleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari (born 27 August 1984) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Italy, playing for clubs such as Udinese, Inter Milan, and AC Milan.
Spoken about as a talented footballer at a young age, Muntari started his youth career in Ghana with Liberty Professionals before joining Udinese where he progressed from their academy into becoming a first team player. He featured in over 150 matches for Udinese and scored 9 goals before securing a move to join English team Portsmouth then English Premier League. He spent only a season with the Pompey and was also part of the team that won the FA Cup in 2007–08.
His performance in the Premier League and the FA Cup earned him a move to join Inter Milan in 2008. During his time with Inter Milan, he helped the team win the Champions League in 2009–10 and the Serie A title in 2008–09 and 2009–10 among other trophies.
After becoming a full international in 2002, Muntari earned over 80 caps for the Ghana national team and was selected for two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and three FIFA World Cups. He was also a member of the Ghana U20 team that placed second in the African Youth Championship and FIFA U-20 World Cup both in 2001.
He is the elder brother of former Tambov player Sulley Muniru.[4]
- ^ Hawkey, Ian (7 April 2011). "Suleyman Ali Muntari is finding his own way to his goals". thenational.ae. The National (Abu Dhabi). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2020.
- ^ "S. Muntari". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Muniruwas invoked but never defined (see the help page).