Rashid Sumaila (born 18 December 1992 in Cape Coast) and plays for Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. as a centre-back .Sumaila won the 2011 Ghana Best Defender Award at the end of the 2010–11 Glo Premier League season.
Born in Cape Coast, Rashid Sumaila, affectionately known as Rash, began his playing career in the junior ranks of Cape Coast Adisadel-based Astronomers before going on to join Glo Premier League club Ebusua Dwarfs in 2007.He progressed through the ranks at Ebusua Dwarfs and made his senior debut in the 2010–11 Glo Premier League season.
French club RC Lens
took an interest in young powerful centre-back after his first Ghana national football team call-up on 15
November 2011. In late November 2011, Sumaila joined the French club RC Lens
on trial in the 2011–12 Ligue 2 season.In July 2012, Sumaila
signed contract with Asante Kotoko.
International career
Sumaila was part of the Ghana national under-20 football team
at the 2011 African Youth Championship.
He was a member of the Ghana national under-23 football team
that won Ghana's first All-Africa Games football
Gold medal in the Football at the 2011 All-Africa Games
when they defeated South Africa national under-23
football team 4–2 on penalty shoot-out at the Estádio do Zimpeto in Maputo, Mozambique
on 17 September 2011.
On 7 November 2011 Sumaila
was called up to the Ghana squad to face Sierra Leone national football team
and Gabon national football team. In December
2011, Sumaila was named to the Ghana national football team's provisional
25-man squad for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, but was not
included by the Ghana national football team technical staff
for the tournament's final 23-man squad. He will be playing his first World
Cup. Like to wear the number 5 Jersey but has been assigned the number 15
Jersey for Ghana at the World Cup.
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