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28.04.2015 Sports News

Exclusive: Laryea Kingson is returning to Great Olympics this season

By Asempa Sports | Enoch Manu Quansah
Exclusive: Laryea Kingson is returning to Great Olympics this season
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Former Hearts of Oak striker Laryea Kingston is set to join Great Olympics in the second round of the First Capital Plus Premier League.

In an exclusive interview with Joy Sports , the player said he has not retired, pointing out that he is currently training to rejoin his boyhood club.

"I really love the game and I still believe I can come back and play good football," he began.

"I came back to Ghana to play for my former team Hearts of Oak and Olympics is my former team as well so I will be more than happy to play for my boyhood club since some of my colleagues are there - hopefully in the second round of the league," he revealed.

Kingson started his career with Great Olympics at the age of 16, before moving to Libyan side Al-Ittihad in Tripoli in 2000 on loan and back to Hearts of Oak in 2001-2003.

The player turns 35 in November and has also played for many clubs in Israel and Russia.

In January 2012, he returned to Ghana to play for Hearts of Oak for the second time, signing for a year and a half. But soon into the stint, problems with coaches and club officials limited him to a handful of appearances for the Phobians which led to his release before the deal finished.

Looking at the Black Stars
Kingston, whose brother Richard has also returned to play for Olympics in goal, further declared an intention to get a place in the Black Stars.

"Since I have not retired, there is still hope to to come back to play for the Stars. I'm looking forward to play for a team and start playing actively again," said the man who has scored six times in 41 caps for Ghana at senior level.

This comes on the back of widespread public approval of the impact Kingston's compatriots - Godwin Attram, Dan Quaye, Richard Kingson and Osei Boateng (all for Olympics) - on the league this season.

Laryea's storied career
1999–2001 Great Olympics (Ghana)
2000 Al-Ittihad Tripoli (loan, Libya)
2001–2003 Hearts of Oak (Accra)
2003 Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (Israel)
2003–2004 Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel)
2004–2005 Krylia Sovetov Samara (Israel)
2005–2007 Terek Grozny (Israel)
2006 Lokomotiv Moscow (loan, Russia)
2007 Heart of Midlothian (loan, Scotland)
2007–2010 Heart of Midlothian
2010 Vitesse (Holland)
2011–2012 Hapoel Be'er Sheva (Israel)
2012–2013 Hearts of Oak
2013 Phoenix FC (USA)
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