Sekou Sylla (footballer, born 1992)

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a forward for I-League club Churchill Brothers.[2]

Sekou Sylla
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992[1]
Place of birth Conakry, Guinea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Churchill Brothers
Number 15
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 38 (27)
2020 Haiphong 0 (0)
2021– Churchill Brothers 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:21, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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. He made his debut in their 1–0 defeat to Gokulam Kerala on 26 December.[21]

Honours

Club

Magwe

Yangon United

References
  1. "The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". the-afc.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. "Churchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". FootballExpress. 13 July 2021.
  3. "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". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 13 July 2021. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  20. "CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". footballexpress.in. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  21. "I-League: Defending champs Gokulam Kerala begin campaign with solid win". siasat.com. The Siasat Daily. 26 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  22. Myanmar National League themnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
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