Nii Lamptey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nii Lamptey

Ghanaian footballer

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1974

Place of Birth: Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Ghana

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nii Odartey Lamptey (born 10 December 1974) is a former Ghanaian professional footballer and current assistant manager of Sekondi Wise Fighters as well as the proprietor of a school in Accra called Glow-Lamp International School.
During his career he played as a striker from 1990 until 2008 notably for Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Coventry City and the Ghana national football team. He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time.
Lamptey has been used as a byword for a cautionary tale of putting too much pressure on young players to be successful.He also played for Anderlecht, Venezia, Unión Santa Fe, Ankaragücü, União Leiria, Greuther Fürth, Shandong Luneng, Al-Nassr, Asante Kotoko and Jomo Cosmos.