Haminu Dramani

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Haminu Dramani
Personal information
Full name	Haminu Dramani
Date of birth	April 1, 1986 (1986-04-01) (age 22)
Place of birth	Ghana
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Right Wing Forward, Forward, Attacking/Right Midfielder, Right Back
Club information
Current club	Lokomotiv Moscow
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-	Heart of Lions Red Star Belgrade Gençlerbirliği Lokomotiv Moscow	? (?) 4 (1) 31 (2) 3 (0)
National team2
2005-present	Ghana	022 0(3)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 May 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 30 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Haminu Dramani (born 1 April 1986 in Ghana) is a Ghanaian football midfielder who in the 2007 season will play for Lokomotiv Moscow.

[edit] Football career

He signed a four years contract with Russian Cup winners Lokomotiv Moscow on 19 June 2007, for a transfer fees of €3million^[1]. He will join Lokomotiv when the Russian transfer window opens on 1 August 2007. Having started his career in Ghana with Heart of Lions FC, Dramani joined FK Crvena Zvezda for the 2005/06 campaign before scoring twice in 31 league appearances for Gençlerbirliği as they finished sixth in the Turkish Süper Lig last season. He is expected to replace Russian international Marat Izmailov, who is on loan to Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon for a year.

Meanwhile, the decision to transfer Dramani has left cracks within the Turkish side with coach Ersun Yanal quitting after just over a week in charge^[2]. Yanal, who had previously been coach of Genclerbirligi before leaving to become the Turkish National Team Coach, signed a three-year contract with the club on 1 June 2007. The 46-year-old Coach has resigned after disagreeing with the club's decision to sell the Ghana midfielder.

"The chairman's promises seem to have changed from the way they were before the agreement we made" Yanal said. "We would like to be a strong team but we sold Dramani. The club want to try some players on trial in the meantime but this is not the way that I work." ^[3]. Gençlerbirliği Chairman Cavcav, who has been in charge of the Club for 30 years, responded by saying: "We met with the coach before and then I told him that I have to sell Draman to Locomotiv Moskva because all of the negotiations were over and I promised to sell him^[4].

[edit] International career

Dramani was 19, when he had his debut International for Ghana in a friendly against Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on 14 November 2005. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. He scored his first goal of the tournament against the U.S. on 22 June 2006.

He took a starring role in Ghana's International friendly against former World Champions Brazil on 27 March 2007 where the Ghanaians lost 1-0, terrorising the Samba Boys right back Ilsinho, before being dismissed late in the game for a second bookable offence on Ilsinho's replacement Daniel Alves.

[edit] Note on name

There was some confusion during the 2006 FIFA World Cup as Dramani's surname was misspelled DRAMAN on the back of his shirt and, as a result, on FIFA documents. The Ghanaian FA confirm his name is Dramani.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Fifa 2006 World Cup Profile
• Ghana Football Association - official website
• Ghanaweb Football Forum - Official Fan Forum

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