Sekou Sylla

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Sekou Sylla
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992 (age 29)[1]
Place of birth Conakry, Guinea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Churchill Brothers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Sriracha
2014 Chanthaburi
2014–2017 Magwe 88 (18)
2017 Global Cebu 3 (5)
2018–2019 Yangon United 53 (41)
2020 Haiphong 0 (0)
2021– Churchill Brothers 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional association footballer who plays as a forward for Indian I-League club Churchill Brothers. He is known for his tenaciousness, close ball control, dribbling ability, and speed.[2]

Club career[]

Sriracha[]

Sylla began his professional career at Sriracha of Thai Division 1 League in March 2012 and played until December 2012.[3]

Chanthaburi[]

In January 2014, he signed with another Thai side Chanthaburi, that competes in the League 3 but has not appeared in any league match.[3]

Magwe[]

In 2014, Sylla moved to Myanmar National League and signed with Magwe.[4] He represented the club in 2017 AFC Cup, where he made four appearances, notching an equalizer to tie with Malaysian side Johor Darul Ta'zim 1–1,[5] and another goal to salvage a 1–1 draw with Cambodian side Boeung Ket.[6]

With Magwe, he appeared in 88 league matches between 2014 and 2017, scoring 18 goals.[3] He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[7]

Global Cebu[]

Traded to Filipino side Global Cebu in 2017, the Guinean authored a brace for his new club in a 3–1 win over Kaya FC-Makati,[8] and earning the man of the match award.[9] He played only 3 matches for the Philippines Football League side and scored 5 goals.

Yangon United[]

In December 2017, he moved to another Burmese side Yangon United and appeared in domestic tournaments such as Myanmar National League,[10] General Aung San Shield,[11] and MPT Charity Cup. With Yangon, he played in the 2018 AFC Cup and scored 10 goals in 7 matches. He was in the squad of United, that won 2018 General Aung San Shield defeating Hanthawaddy United 2–1, where he scored a goal.[12][13]

In 2018,[14] Yangon also won the Myanmar National League title and Sylla emerged as second highest goalscorer with 17 goals, behind Joseph Mpande.[15][16] Between 2017 and 2019, he scored a total of 41 goals in 53 matches.

Haiphong[]

In 2020, he moved to Vietnamese V.League 1 side Haiphong FC.[17][18]

Churchill Brothers[]

In July 2021, Sylla signed for I-League outfit Churchill Brothers for their 2021–22 I-League season.[19][20] He is the first foreign recruit of the season for the Goa-based side.

Honours[]

Magwe
Yangon United

References[]

  1. ^ "The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". the-afc.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Magwe need to find scoring touch against Beoungket Angkor". FOX Sports Asia. 5 April 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  4. ^ MNL, MFF (4 February 2017). "Magwe FC, three teams drop out". Soccerway. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  5. ^ "The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". The-afc.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times". Khmertimeskh.com. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. ^ ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ Archived 28 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  8. ^ "PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati". ABS-CBN SPORTS. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Philippines Football League". Facebook.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  10. ^ "2018 MPT Myanmar National League ပြဲစဥ္ဇယားမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ". Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  11. ^ ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ Archived 30 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  12. ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲျပဳလုပ္". MNL Web. 2018.
  13. ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မည္". MNL Web. 2018.
  14. ^ "MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္". Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  15. ^ "ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆုမ်ားကို ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ အသင္းမွ ရရွိ". 2018.
  16. ^ "ဇူလိုင္လ အတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ တစ္လတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုကို သီဟေဇာ္ႏွင့္ ဦးေငြထြန္းတို႔ ရရွိ". 2018.
  17. ^ Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statistics Soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
  18. ^ "Đội bóng đất Cảng chiêu mộ thành công 'người cũ'". 26 December 2020.
  19. ^ "Churchill sign Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  20. ^ "CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". footballexpress.in. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  21. ^ Myanmar National League themnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021

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