Baba Yara was a Ghanaian international footballer born on October 12, 1936 in Kumasi, Ashanti Locale.
The incredible Baba Yara was famously called ‘King Winger’ owing to his extraordinary abilities as a footballer.
He was the primary footballer to be voted twice as Ghana’s Footballer of the Year as a result of his incredible objective-scoring ability.
Baba Yara’s rise to acclaim was exceptional as a result of his objective scoring abilities; in any case, his football career was unexpectedly put to an conclusion as a result of a car mischance.
Yara begun out as a horse move player as a adolescent at the Accra Turf Club between 1950 and 1955.
In the blink of an eye after, Kumasi-based Asante Kotoko Football Club marked him in 1955 and after some a long time, he got to be the most prominent footballer of his era.
He to begin with made his make a big appearance as a part of the Dark Stars within the same year of 1955 when took portion in a coordinate that saw Ghana put seven past Nigeria at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Baba Yara scored two and helped four of the objectives amid the coordinate.
Some a long time on, Baba Yara got to be a glad part of the 1961 Dark Stars group and earned 51 caps for the national football group. He is said to have scored 49 objectives which is very a number for a winger and was in this way nicknamed ‘Ruler of Wingers’.
Yara played dynamic football from 1955-1963, and was voted Footballer of the Year twice; the most noteworthy football award within the nation.
Whereas getting a charge out of his famous career, Baba Yara all of a sudden maintained a spinal damage in a motor mischance that occured at Kpeve within the Volta Locale on Walk 4, 1963.
His group, Nkrumah’s Genuine Republikans, prior to the mischance, were returning to Accra after a association coordinate against Volta Heroes at Kpando when the mishap occured.
The appalling occurrence, in any case, cut brief Baba Yara’s football career whereas he was in his prime age of fair 26.
He was flown to Stoke Mandeville Clinic within the Joined together Kingdom for treatment for a period of three months, but the youthful soccer legend as it were returned in a wheel chair.
For six a long time, Baba Yara was out of commission, and inevitably passed on at the Korle-Bu Educating Clinic on May 5, 1969. He was 33 a long time ancient.
In respect of him, the Kumasi Sports Stadium was on April 12, 2005 named after Baba Yara for his extraordinary ability and colossal commitment to Ghana football.
The stadium remains Ghana’s greatest sports stadium with over 60,000 seater capacity.
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