Sekou Sylla (footballer, born 1992)
Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Myanmar National League club Yangon United.[2] He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 January 1992[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Conakry, Guinea | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Yangon United | ||
| 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) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 October 2023 | |||
Club career edit
Sriracha edit
Sylla began his professional career at Sriracha of Thai Division 1 League in March 2012 and played until December 2012.[3]
Chanthaburi edit
In January 2014, he signed with Thai side Chanthaburi, competing in League 3 but did not appear in any league match.[3]
Magwe edit
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.[3] He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[7]
Global Cebu edit
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 three matches for the Philippines Football League side and scored 5 goals.[citation needed]
Yangon United edit
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 edit
In 2020, he moved to Vietnamese V.League 1 side Haiphong FC.[17][18]
Churchill Brothers edit
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]
Club statistics edit
| 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 |
| Total | 149 | 90 | 11 | |
Club statistics edit
| Club team | Year | Apps | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yangon United | 2012 | 17 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2014 | 20 | 1 | 3 | |
| Yadanarbon | 2015 | 24 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 22 | 0 | 5 | |
| 2017 | 21 | 2 | 6 | |
| 2018 | 21 | 10 | 7 | |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 17 | 0 | 3 | |
| Chonburi (loan) | 2019 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| Shan United | 2022 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| Ayutthaya United | 2023 | 17 | 2 | 4 |
| Chainat United | 2023 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 205 | 24 | 37 | |
Honours edit
Magwe
Yangon United
References edit
- ^ "The AFC.com – The Asian Football Confederation". the-afc.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Churchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". FootballExpress. 13 July 2021. from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ a b c "Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics". globalsportsarchive.com. from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ MNL, MFF (4 February 2017). "Magwe FC, three teams drop out". Soccerway. from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ "The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation". The-afc.com. from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times". Khmertimeskh.com. 7 April 2017. from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ 28 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
- ^ "PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati". ABS-CBN SPORTS. from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "Philippines Football League". Facebook.com. from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ 30 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Burmese)
- ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲျပဳလုပ္". MNL Web. 2018. from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ "၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မည္". MNL Web. 2018. from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆုမ်ားကို ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ အသင္းမွ ရရွိ". 2018. from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ "ဇူလိုင္လ အတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ တစ္လတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုကို သီဟေဇာ္ႏွင့္ ဦးေငြထြန္းတို႔ ရရွိ". 2018. from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statistics 2022-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
- ^ "Đội bóng đất Cảng chiêu mộ thành công 'người cũ'". 26 December 2020. from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ "Churchill sign Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. The Times of India. 13 July 2021. from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ "CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla". footballexpress.in. from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ . siasat.com. The Siasat Daily. 26 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Myanmar National League 2021-12-03 at the Wayback Machine themnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
External links edit
- Sekou Sylla profile at flashscore.in
- Churchill Brothers rope in Sekou Sylla