Robert Mensah
Football player
1939 –
Who is Robert Mensah?
Robert Mensah was a former Ghanaian international football player. As a player, he was best known for his exploits at Asante Kotoko F.C. where he won the African Clubs Cup in 1970. He was also a runner-up with the Ghana squad for the 1968 African Cup of Nations and represented Ghana at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Mensah played in the 1967 Africa Clubs Cup final which resulted in a 3-3 draw and a replay was scheduled, however the Ghana Football Association never informed Asante Kotoko. As a result Asante Kotoko did not participate in the replay and the trophy was awarded to Zaire's TP Engelbert in their absence.
Mensah was largely a controversial in Ghanaian football and would mock opposition players by reading a newspaper whilst goal-tending. He often wore a cap during football games causing some opposing players to physically remove it from his head believing it was bringing them bad luck through the use of juju.
In 1970 he was voted as the 9th best African football player by French football publication France-Football. A year later he was runner-up in the African football player of the year award.
During a qualifying game against the Liberian national football team in April 1970, the player had missiles thrown at him by the home crowd.
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