Sekou Sylla (footballer, born 1992) explained

Sekou Sylla
Birth Date:1 January 1992[1]
Birth Place:Conakry, Guinea
Position:Striker
Currentclub:Sheikh Russel KC
Years1:2012–2014
Clubs1:Sriracha
Years2:2014
Clubs2:Chanthaburi
Years3:2014–2017
Clubs3:Magwe
Caps3:69
Goals3:28
Years4:2017
Clubs4:Global Cebu
Caps4:3
Goals4:5
Years5:2018–2019
Clubs5:Yangon United
Caps5:57
Goals5:46
Years6:2020
Clubs6:Haiphong
Caps6:0
Goals6:0
Years7:2021–2022
Clubs7:Churchill Brothers
Caps7:8
Goals7:0
Years8:2023
Clubs8:Yangon United
Caps8:15
Goals8:11
Years9:2023
Clubs9:Persikab Bandung
Caps9:10
Goals9:6
Years10:2024–
Clubs10:Sheikh Russel KC
Caps10:0
Goals10:0
Pcupdate:26 March 2024

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sheikh Russel KC in Bangladesh Premier League.[2] [3] He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.

Club career

Sriracha

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

Chanthaburi

In January 2014, he signed with Thai side Chanthaburi, competing in League 3 but did not appear in any league match.

Magwe

In 2014, Sylla moved to the 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.[7] He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[8]

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,[9] and earning the man of the match award.[10] He played only three 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,[11] General Aung San Shield,[12] 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.[13] [14]

In 2018,[15] Yangon also won the Myanmar National League title and Sylla emerged as second highest goalscorer with 17 goals, behind Joseph Mpande.[16] [17] 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.[18] [19]

Churchill Brothers

In July 2021, Sylla signed for I-League outfit Churchill Brothers for their 2021–22 I-League season.[20] [21] 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.[22]

Club statistics

Appearances and goals by club team and year
Club teamYearAppsGoalsAssists
Sriracha2012000
2013000
2014000
2014000
Magwe20142180
20152270
201626130
2017350
Yangon United201828296
201926174
2020000
2022801
Yangon United202315115
Persikab Bandung2023110
Total1509111

Honours

Magwe

Yangon United

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The AFC.com – The Asian Football Confederation . the-afc.com. 2 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Churchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla. FootballExpress. 13 July 2021. 1 July 2022. 17 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211117030450/https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/. live.
  3. Web site: Guinea - S. Sylla - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway . 2024-03-26 . int.soccerway.com.
  4. News: MNL. MFF. Magwe FC, three teams drop out. 21 October 2016. Soccerway. 4 February 2017. 19 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219220343/http://int.soccerway.com/teams/myanmar/magway-fc/14951/. live.
  5. Web site: The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation. The-afc.com. 7 December 2017. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171108095558/http://www.the-afc.com/afc-cup-2017/match-report/competition/821/season/2017/matchid/906668. live.
  6. Web site: Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times. 7 April 2017. Khmertimeskh.com. 7 December 2017. 1 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220701055130/https://www.khmertimeskh.com/15777/boeung-ket-hold-magwe-in-afc-cup/. live.
  7. Web site: Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics. 18 July 2021. globalsportsarchive.com. 18 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210718055409/https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/sekou-sylla/162746/. live.
  8. http://www.themnl.com/?p=2130 ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ
  9. Web site: PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati. ABS-CBN SPORTS. 7 December 2017. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171108095953/http://sports.abs-cbn.com/football/news/2017/05/26/pfl-sekou-sylla-powers-global-cebu-past-kaya-makati-26513. live.
  10. Web site: Philippines Football League. Facebook.com. 7 December 2017. 1 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220701055142/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPhilippinesFootballLeagueOfficial%2Fphotos%2Fa.1251844274865422.1073741827.1240035632712953%2F1316011481782034%2F%3Ftype%3D3. live.
  11. News: 2018 MPT Myanmar National League ပြဲစဥ္ဇယားမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ . 2017-12-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180212010502/http://www.duwun.com.mm/sports/local-sports/2018-mpt-myanmar-national-league-id7753533.html . 2018-02-12 . dead .
  12. http://13.229.65.228/sport/85041 ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္
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  15. News: MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္ . 2018-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071628/https://themnl.com/?p=85 . 2018-01-21 . dead .
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  18. https://int.soccerway.com/players/sekou-sylla/475160/ Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statistics
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  20. Web site: Churchill sign Guinean forward Sekou Sylla. timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 13 July 2021. 18 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210713001251/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/churchill-sign-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla/articleshow/84359257.cms. 13 July 2021. live.
  21. Web site: CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla. footballexpress.in. 18 July 2021. 18 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210718044736/https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/. live.
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