BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters)(DS) - Ghanaian striker Tony Yeboah will answer tax evasion charges in court next month, his lawyer said on Monday.

Yeboah, now with Hamburg SV, allegedly failed to pay tax on 2.3 million marks ($1.1 million) he received after extending his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1993. "What must be established is wether the evasion was deliberate," his lawyer, Thomas Kruppa, told German sports news agency SID.

"I can't see any malice because he did not have a good command of the language in wich the contract was written," he added.

The trial of the 34-year-old former Leeds player will start on August 3.