Richmond Forson [SEP] member of sports team
Richmond Forson
Richmond Forson (born 23 May 1980 in Aflao, Ghana) is a naturalised Togolese football midfielder, who plays for AS Yzeure in the Championnat de France amateur.
Club career.
As a youngster who started out with Sporting Club de Lome, Forson moved to France to FC Metz. His early promise which saw interest in him by such big clubs as Arsenal was almost eliminated when in 2001, while only 21, he was the victim of a serious road accident in France which left him unable to
2004. A total of 14 athletes, seven per gender, were selected to the team across five different sports. Among the sports represented by the athletes, Ghana marked its Olympic debut in swimming, women's judo, and men's weightlifting.
Notable Ghanaian athletes on the squad were Hungarian-born judoka Szandra Szögedi, and freestyle swimmer Kaya Forson, who established a record as the youngest ever competitor (aged 14) in the nation's Olympic history. Javelin thrower John Ampomah was named the captain of the Ghanaian team