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Key facts
- 2016
- Kaizer Chiefs (assistant manager)
- Full name
- John Paintsil
- Date of birth
- ( 1981-06-15 ) 15 June 1981 (age 44)
- Place of birth
- Berekum , Brong-Ahafo , Ghana
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Positions
- Full back defensive midfielder
- Current team
- Kaizer Chiefs (assistant manager)
- 1997 1999
- Berekum Arsenal
- Years
- Team
- 1999 2000
- Berekum Arsenal
- 2000 2001
- Liberty Professionals
- 2001 2002
- Berekum Arsenal
- 2002 2004
- Maccabi Tel Aviv
- 2004 2006
- Hapoel Tel Aviv
- 2006 2008
- West Ham United
- 2008 2011
- Fulham
- 2011 2012
- Leicester City
- 2012 2013
- Hapoel Tel Aviv
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Full-back
- Nationality
- Ghana
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ghana
- Place of birth
- Kumasi
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2026 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Ghana national under-20 football team
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Ghana
- Mass
- 68
- Image
- John Paintsil.JPG
- Height
- 178
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- Commons category
- John Paintsil
- date of birth
- 1981-06-15
- sport number
- 5
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
John Paintsil (born 15 June 1981) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who was an assistant coach at Kaizer Chiefs in the South African Premiership. He played club football for Berekum Arsenal, Liberty Professionals, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv, West Ham United, Fulham, Leicester City, Santos and Maritzburg United as well as internationally for Ghana.
His family name is Paintsil but at birth it was registered as Pantsil in error. This then subsequently appeared on his passport and his registration with the Premier League.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Paintsil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.