Personal Life
He is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd. He was a member of Ghana's national team for ten years, and represented his country at three African Cup Of Nations during the 1990s. Yeboah scored 29 goals in 59 appearances for Ghana, the second highest goalscoring total in the nation's history behind Abedi Ayew Pele.
On 3 November 2008, he was appointed as the new chairman of the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Berekum Chelsea.
Yeboah runs an international sports agency called Anthony Yeboah Sportpromotion. He also owns a chain of hotels in Ghana(Accra, Kumasi) called Yegoala He is married and has two children. Many of his familymembers reside in Europe some of his brothers (Prince, Emmanuel) Cousins (Anthony, Mathilda, Dennis, Yannick, Micheal, Emmanuel) .
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