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Peter Ofori-Quaye (born 21 March 1980) is a Ghanaian former footballer who played as a striker. Ofori-Quaye spent most of his career in the Greek division and amassed 33 goals in his 10 seasons in the league.
During a 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage match on 1 October 1997, he scored for Olympiacos against Rosenborg when he was 17 years and 195 days old, becoming the youngest player to score in the competition’s history.The record stood for twenty-two years until 10 December 2019 when it was broken by Ansu Fati of FC Barcelona at the age of 17 years and 40 days. At the international level, he played 18 matches for the Ghana national football team and scored 2 goals. He featured for national team at the 1998 and 2000 African Cup of Nations tournaments.
Ofori Quaye is a native of Mamprobi, a suburb of Accra known for producing very talented and intelligent sportspeople including former Ghanaian captain Stephen Appiah, the Sabah brothers (Christian Saba and Robert Saba), Ali Jarra, and former world boxing champion Azumah Nelson.
Kalamata
Born in Accra, Ofori-Quaye came to Greece at the age of 15, signing for Kalamata FC during the Stavros Papadopoulos era of the club. The Papadopoulos era was noted for bringing in talented players from the nation of Ghana with Ofori-Quaye proving to be the most promising player ahead of teammates Samuel Johnson and Derek Boateng.
Olympiacos
At the age of 17, Ofori-Quaye signed for Greek champions Olympiacos for a Kalamata FC club record of US$3.5 million. Ofori-Quaye attracted much attention from other clubs, scoring key goals including those in the UEFA Champions League against the likes of Rosenborg BK, Olympique Lyonnais, and Deportivo La Coruna. In the middle of Olympiacos’ coach changing crisis, Ofori-Quaye was released by the club in 2003. He won 6 Greek Championships with the Piraeus based club, a Hellenic Cup, and helped them reach the quarter finals of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League.
Liberty Professionals
After a year away from football, he signed for Ghanaian club Liberty Professionals FC in 2004. In 2005, he returned to Greece signing for OFI Crete where he began to hit good form and was recalled back to his national team.
Kiryat Shmona
In July 2007 newly promoted Israeli club Kiryat Shmona tried to sign him, but his contract was not approved in the first place with OFI reported him missing for the past three months. He went on an played 26 matches and scored 4 goals during his only season with the club.
AEL Limassol
Ofori-Quaye moved to Cyprus where joined Limassol club AEL Limassol in the summer of 2008. On 30 August 2008, He made his debut appearance as he was named on the starting 11 for the first match of the season against Apollon Smyrnis. He ended up scoring his first goal in the 3rd minute of the match which ended in a 3–1 win. Due to injuries, he ended his season with 11 league matches and scored 3 goals. During his time with the club they progressed to the final of the 2008–09 Cypriot Cup which they lost by 2–0 to APOP Kinyras. In 2010, Ofori-Quaye was on the verge of moving to Ghana and signing for Accra Hearts of Oak but the deal fell through.
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