George Blay

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George Blay (born 7 August 1980) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.[1]

Club career

Blay was born on 7 August 1980 in Elmina, Ghana and started to play football at Sekondi Hasaacas.[1][2] He went to play in Belgium for Standard Liège, making his Belgian First Division debut under coach Aad de Mos on 31 August 1997 in a 3–0 away victory against Germinal Ekeren.[1][3][4] He scored his first league goal on 29 August 1998 when he closed the score in a 3–0 home win over Eendracht Aalst.[1][2][5] He spent a total of five seasons at Standard, reaching two Belgian Cup finals under the guidance of coach Tomislav Ivić, however both of them were lost.[1][2][3] Blay afterwards went for one season at Mechelen and in 2003 he went to play for three seasons at La Louviére.[1][2][3][6] On 30 April 2006, Blay made his last Belgian First Division appearance in La Louviére's 2–2 home draw against Charleroi, having a total of 180 matches with three goals netted in the competition.[1][2]

In 2006, Blay was transferred in Romania at Dinamo București, being recommended by his former Standard teammate, Liviu Ciobotariu, making his Liga I debut on 30 July 2006 in a 2–1 away victory against Național București, being used in his first season spent at the club by coach Mircea Rednic in 31 out of 34 rounds as the club won the title.[2][3][7] He also appeared in 12 matches as the club reached the sixteenths-finals of the 2006–07 UEFA Cup where they were eliminated with 3–1 on aggregate by Benfica.[2][3][7][8] In the following season The Red Dogs had the objective of reaching the Champions League group stage, Blay playing in both legs of the third qualifying round against Lazio Roma, which however was lost with 4–2 on aggregate.[2][9] Afterwards he went to play for a short while at Internațional Curtea de Argeș, then he moved to Unirea Urziceni where on 4 May 2011 he made his last Liga I appearance in a 2–1 home win against Victoria Brănești, having a total of 80 games in the competition.[1][2][10]

In 2011 he returned to Belgium and signed with Royal Antwerp in the Belgian Second Division who bought him to replace Bart Van Zundert, retiring at the end of the 2011–12 season.[2][3][7][11] Blay has a total of 25 games in which he scored one goal in European competitions (including three appearances in the Intertoto Cup).[1][2]

International career

Blay played for Ghana's under-20 national team, participating at the 1999 World Youth Championship where he made five appearances, helping the team reach the quarter-finals where they lost at the penalty kicks to Spain, who eventually won the competition.[12]

He played seven games and scored once for Ghana, making his debut under coach Giuseppe Dossena on 8 April 2000 in a 1–0 away victory against Tanzania at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers first round.[13][14] His following game was a 5–0 home win over Sierra Leone at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers second round and in his third game played he scored his only goal for the national team in a friendly which ended 1–1 against Algeria.[13] He was selected by coach Fred Osam-Duodu to be part of Ghana's squad from the 2002 African Cup of Nations, playing in all three games from the group stage, as the team qualified to the quarter-finals where he did not play in the 1–0 loss to Nigeria.[13][15] On 17 May 2002, Blay made his last appearance for The Black Stars in a friendly which ended with a 2–0 loss to Slovenia.[13]

International goals

Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each George Blay goal.[16]
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 5 December 2001 Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria {{ Template:Yesno alias = Algeria flag alias = Flag of Algeria.svg flag alias-1830 = Flag of France (1794-1815).svg flag alias-1958 = Flag of Algeria (1958-1962).svg flag alias-naval = Naval Ensign of Algeria.svg link alias-naval = Algerian National Navy link alias-air force = Algerian Air Force link alias-army = Algerian Land Forces flag alias-navy = Naval Ensign of Algeria.svg link alias-navy = Algerian National Navy link alias-military = Algerian People's National Army size = name = altlink = national football team variant =

}} ||align="center"|1–0 || align="center"|1–1 || Friendly

Honours

Standard Liège

Dinamo București

References

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External links

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