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Sekou Sylla
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992 (age 32)[1]
Place of birth Conakry, Guinea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Deltras
Number 15
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Sriracha
2014 Chanthaburi
2014–2017 Magwe 69 (28)
2017 Global Cebu 3 (5)
2018–2019 Yangon United 57 (46)
2020 Haiphong 0 (0)
2021–2022 Churchill Brothers 8 (0)
2023 Yangon United 15 (11)
2023 Persikab Bandung 10 (6)
2024 Sheikh Russel KC 6 (1)
2024– Deltras 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2024

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga 2 club Deltras.[2][3] He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.[citation needed]

Club career

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Sriracha

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Sylla began his professional career at Sriracha of Thai Division 1 League in March 2012 and played until December 2012.[4]

Chanthaburi

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In January 2014, he signed with Thai side Chanthaburi, competing in League 3 but did not appear in any league match.[4]

Magwe

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In 2014, Sylla moved to the Myanmar National League and signed with Magwe.[5] 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,[6] and another goal to salvage a 1–1 draw with Cambodian side Boeung Ket.[7]

With Magwe, he appeared in 88 league matches between 2014 and 2017, scoring 18 goals.[4] He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[8]

Global Cebu

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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.[citation needed]

Yangon United

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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

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In 2020, he moved to Vietnamese V.League 1 side Haiphong FC.[18][19]

Churchill Brothers

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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

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Appearances and goals by club team and year
Club team Year Apps Goals Assists
Sriracha 2012 0 0 0
2013 0 0 0
2014 0 0 0
Chanthaburi 2014 0 0 0
Magwe 2014 21 8 0
2015 22 7 0
2016 26 13 0
Global Cebu 2017 3 5 0
Yangon United 2018 28 29 6
2019 26 17 4
Haiphong 2020 0 0 0
Churchill Brothers 2022 8 0 1
Yangon United 2023 15 11 5
Persikab Bandung 2023 10 6 0
Total 159 96 11

Honours

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Magwe

Yangon United

References

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  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. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Guinea - S. Sylla - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics". globalsportsarchive.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^ MNL, MFF (4 February 2017). "Magwe FC, three teams drop out". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  6. ^ "The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". The-afc.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times". Khmertimeskh.com. 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  8. ^ ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ Archived 28 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  9. ^ "PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati". ABS-CBN SPORTS. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Philippines Football League". Facebook.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  11. ^ "2018 MPT Myanmar National League ပြဲစဥ္ဇယားမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ". Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  12. ^ ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ Archived 30 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
  13. ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲျပဳလုပ္". MNL Web. 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  14. ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မည္". MNL Web. 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  15. ^ "MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္". Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  16. ^ "ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆုမ်ားကို ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ အသင္းမွ ရရွိ". 2018. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  17. ^ "ဇူလိုင္လ အတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ တစ္လတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုကို သီဟေဇာ္ႏွင့္ ဦးေငြထြန္းတို႔ ရရွိ". 2018. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  18. ^ Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statistics Archived 2022-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
  19. ^ "Đội bóng đất Cảng chiêu mộ thành công 'người cũ'". 26 December 2020. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  20. ^ "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.
  21. ^ "CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". footballexpress.in. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  22. ^ "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.
  23. ^ Myanmar National League Archived 2021-12-03 at the Wayback Machine themnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
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