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Key facts
- 2007
- → Hammarby (loan)
- 2013
- Doxa Katokopias
- 2014
- Balıkesirspor
- 2015
- Great Olympics
- 2021
- Ghana 'A' (goalkeeper coach)
- Full name
- Richard Kingson
- Date of birth
- ( 1978-06-13 ) 13 June 1978 (age 47)
- Place of birth
- Accra , Ghana
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Years
- Team
- 1995 1996
- Great Olympics
- 1996 2005
- Galatasaray
- 1998 1999
- → Sakaryaspor (loan)
- 1999 2001
- → Göztepe (loan)
- 2001 2002
- → Antalyaspor (loan)
- 2002 2003
- → Elazığspor (loan)
- 2005 2007
- Ankaraspor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ghana
- Place of birth
- Accra
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 1998 African Cup of Nations
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Accra Great Olympics F.C.
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Ghana
- Mass
- 83
- Image
- Richard Kingston.jpg
- Height
- 183
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- Richard Kingson
- date of birth
- 1978-06-13
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- name in native language
- Richard Kingson
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Kingson (born 13 June 1978) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently serves as a goalkeeper coach for the Ghana national football team. He is also known by his Turkish name Faruk Gürsoy and sometimes by the surname Kingston, which is the surname he used in his UEFA registration and also the surname of his brother Laryea Kingston. The different spelling of the surnames is due to "irregularity on his identity documents". Even in his native Ghana, he was quoted as "the man who got the 't' off his surname".
After leaving his home country, he played for several clubs in Turkey, for Hammarby in Sweden, and in England for Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic and Blackpool, who released him at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Kingson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.