Richmond Boakye

Richmond Boakye scored within minutes of his Serie A debut for Genoa in April 2010, aged 17. He later became a goal machine at Red Star Belgrade, with about 60 goals in over 100 games.

Italy

Richmond Yiadom Boakye was born in Accra on 28 January 1993. He played for Bechem United and for D.C. United in Agogo before Genoa spotted him at a 2008 tournament in Vicenza. With Genoa's youth side he won the Primavera title and cup. Two loan seasons at Sassuolo brought 12 and then 11 league goals, and in 2013 he helped the club win Serie B and reach the top flight for the first time. Juventus bought a share of him in 2012 and loaned him to Elche in Spain for 2013-14, where he scored six league goals. Spells followed at Atalanta, Roda in the Netherlands and Latina.

Red Star and beyond

At Red Star Belgrade he won Serbian league titles. He has also played for Jiangsu Suning in China, Górnik Zabrze in Poland, Beitar Jerusalem in Israel, Lamia in Greece, Al Akhdar in Libya and Selangor in Malaysia, and in 2025 he signed an 18-month deal with Sloga Doboj in Bosnia.