Cecil Jones Attuquayefio


Cecil Jones Attuquayefio was a Ghanaian footballer and coach.

International

He played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.

Coaching career

He managed the Benin national team to the 2004 African Nations Cup, Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup. He also managed Ghana's national team. In 2008/2009 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C. and became the title coach of the Century.
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio was named African coach of the year in 2000 after his club Accra Hearts of Oak of Ghana won the African Champions league with only one loss throughout the entire tournament.
In 2015, Jones Attuquayefio died in the early hours of May 12, 2015 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital, from throat cancer.