Sekou Sylla (footballer, born 1992)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Sekou Sylla

| image =

| caption = Sekou Sylla with Yangon United in 2019

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|1|1|df=y}}{{cite web

|title=The AFC.com – The Asian Football Confederation |url=http://www.the-afc.com/teamsandplayers/player?season=2018&competition=821&team=11502&player=248280&cname=afc-cup&ateam=Yangon%20United%20FC%20(MYA)|website=the-afc.com|access-date=2 August 2021}}

| birth_place = Conakry, Guinea

| height = {{height|m=1.80}}

| position = Striker

| currentclub = Deltras

| clubnumber = 15

| club-update =

| years1 = 2012–2014

| clubs1 = Sriracha

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 2014

| clubs2 = Chanthaburi

| caps2 =

| goals2 =

| 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 = 6

| goals10 = 1

| years11= 2024–

| clubs11 = Deltras

| caps11 = 8

| goals11 = 2

| pcupdate = 12 February 2025

| ntupdate =

}}

Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga 2 club Deltras.{{cite web|url=https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/|title=Churchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla|publisher=FootballExpress|date=13 July 2021|access-date=1 July 2022|archive-date=17 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117030450/https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Guinea - S. Sylla - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/sekou-sylla/475160/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=int.soccerway.com}} He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024|reason=Need a reliable source about this claim.}}

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.{{cite news|last1=MNL|first1=MFF|title=Magwe FC, three teams drop out|url=https://int.soccerway.com/teams/myanmar/magway-fc/14951/|access-date=21 October 2016|agency=Soccerway|date=4 February 2017|archive-date=19 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219220343/http://int.soccerway.com/teams/myanmar/magway-fc/14951/|url-status=live}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.the-afc.com/afc-cup-2017/match-report/competition/821/season/2017/matchid/906668|title=The AFC.com - The Asian Football Confederation|website=The-afc.com|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=8 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108095558/http://www.the-afc.com/afc-cup-2017/match-report/competition/821/season/2017/matchid/906668|url-status=live}} and another goal to salvage a 1–1 draw with Cambodian side Boeung Ket.{{cite web|url=http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37297/boeung-ket-hold-magwe-in-afc-cup/|title=Boeung Ket hold Magwe in AFC Cup - Khmer Times|date=7 April 2017|website=Khmertimeskh.com|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701055130/https://www.khmertimeskh.com/15777/boeung-ket-hold-magwe-in-afc-cup/|url-status=live}}

With Magwe, he appeared in 88 league matches between 2014 and 2017, scoring 18 goals.{{Cite web|url=https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/sekou-sylla/162746/|title=Sekou Sylla player profile and statistics|access-date=18 July 2021|website=globalsportsarchive.com|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718055409/https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/sekou-sylla/162746/|url-status=live}} He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.[http://www.themnl.com/?p=2130 ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828190627/http://www.themnl.com/?p=2130 |date=28 August 2016 }} (in Burmese)

=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,{{cite web|url=http://sports.abs-cbn.com/football/news/2017/05/26/pfl-sekou-sylla-powers-global-cebu-past-kaya-makati-26513|title=PFL: Sekou Sylla powers Global Cebu past Kaya Makati|website=ABS-CBN SPORTS|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=8 November 2017|archive-url=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|url-status=live}} and earning the man of the match award.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/PhilippinesFootballLeagueOfficial/photos/a.1251844274865422.1073741827.1240035632712953/1316011481782034/?type=3|title=Philippines Football League|website=Facebook.com|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=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|url-status=live}} He played only three matches for the Philippines Football League side and scored 5 goals.{{fact|date=July 2022}}

=Yangon United=

In December 2017, he moved to another Burmese side Yangon United and appeared in domestic tournaments such as Myanmar National League,{{cite news |title=2018 MPT Myanmar National League ပြဲစဥ္ဇယားမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ |url=http://www.duwun.com.mm/sports/local-sports/2018-mpt-myanmar-national-league-id7753533.html |access-date=2017-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212010502/http://www.duwun.com.mm/sports/local-sports/2018-mpt-myanmar-national-league-id7753533.html |archive-date=2018-02-12 |url-status=dead }} General Aung San Shield,[http://13.229.65.228/sport/85041 ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930231222/http://13.229.65.228/sport/85041 |date=30 September 2018 }} (in Burmese) 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.{{cite web|title=၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲျပဳလုပ္|url=https://themnl.com/%e1%81%82%e1%81%80%e1%81%81%e1%81%88-%e1%80%97%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%9c%e1%80%b9%e1%80%81%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b3%e1%80%95%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b1%e1%80%a1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%86%e1%80%94-2/|publisher=MNL Web|year=2018|access-date=2022-07-01|archive-date=2018-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826125413/https://themnl.com/%E1%81%82%E1%81%80%E1%81%81%E1%81%88-%E1%80%97%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B9%E1%80%81%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B3%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%86%E1%80%94-2/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=၂၀၁၈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္းဆု ရႈံးထြက္ ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အတြက္ မဲခြဲပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မည္|url=https://themnl.com/%e1%81%82%e1%81%80%e1%81%81%e1%81%88-%e1%80%97%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%9c%e1%80%b9%e1%80%81%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b3%e1%80%95%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b1%e1%80%a1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%86%e1%80%94%e1%80%b9/|publisher=MNL Web|year=2018|access-date=2022-07-01|archive-date=2018-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826125449/https://themnl.com/%E1%81%82%E1%81%80%E1%81%81%E1%81%88-%E1%80%97%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B9%E1%80%81%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B3%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%86%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9/|url-status=live}}

In 2018,{{cite news |title=MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္ |url=https://themnl.com/?p=85 |access-date=2018-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071628/https://themnl.com/?p=85 |archive-date=2018-01-21 |url-status=dead }} Yangon also won the Myanmar National League title and Sylla emerged as second highest goalscorer with 17 goals, behind Joseph Mpande.{{cite web|title=ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆုမ်ားကို ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္ အသင္းမွ ရရွိ|url=https://themnl.com/%e1%80%b1%e1%80%96%e1%80%b1%e1%80%96%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9d%e1%80%ab%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ae%e1%80%9c%e1%80%a1%e1%80%90%e1%80%bc%e1%80%80%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%a1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%80%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9/|year=2018|access-date=2022-07-01|archive-date=2018-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140246/https://themnl.com/%e1%80%b1%e1%80%96%e1%80%b1%e1%80%96%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9d%e1%80%ab%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ae%e1%80%9c%e1%80%a1%e1%80%90%e1%80%bc%e1%80%80%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%a1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%80%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=ဇူလိုင္လ အတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ တစ္လတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုကို သီဟေဇာ္ႏွင့္ ဦးေငြထြန္းတို႔ ရရွိ|url=https://themnl.com/%e1%80%87%e1%80%b0%e1%80%9c%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9c-%e1%80%a1%e1%80%90%e1%80%bc%e1%80%80%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%bb%e1%80%99%e1%80%94%e1%80%b9%e1%80%99%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94%e1%80%9b/|year=2018|access-date=2022-07-01|archive-date=2018-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923163323/https://themnl.com/%e1%80%87%e1%80%b0%e1%80%9c%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9c-%e1%80%a1%e1%80%90%e1%80%bc%e1%80%80%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%bb%e1%80%99%e1%80%94%e1%80%b9%e1%80%99%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94%e1%80%9b/|url-status=live}} 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.[https://int.soccerway.com/players/sekou-sylla/475160/ Sekou Sylla from Guinea: player profile and statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305140050/https://int.soccerway.com/players/sekou-sylla/475160/ |date=2022-03-05 }} Soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021{{Cite web|url = https://thethao247.vn/357-doi-bong-dat-cang-chieu-mo-thanh-cong-nguoi-cu--d221453.html|title = Đội bóng đất Cảng chiêu mộ thành công 'người cũ'|date = 26 December 2020|access-date = 1 July 2022|archive-date = 11 July 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711120004/https://thethao247.vn/357-doi-bong-dat-cang-chieu-mo-thanh-cong-nguoi-cu--d221453.html|url-status = live}}

=Churchill Brothers=

In July 2021, Sylla signed for I-League outfit Churchill Brothers for their 2021–22 I-League season.{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/churchill-sign-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla/articleshow/84359257.cms|title=Churchill sign Guinean forward Sekou Sylla|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|publisher=The Times of India|date=13 July 2021|access-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713001251/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/churchill-sign-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla/articleshow/84359257.cms|archive-date=13 July 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/|title=CHURCHILL BROTHERS FC GOAChurchill Brothers rope in Guinean forward Sekou Sylla|website=footballexpress.in|access-date=18 July 2021|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718044736/https://footballexpress.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-guinean-forward-sekou-sylla-i-league/|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/i-league-defending-champs-gokulam-kerala-begin-campaign-with-solid-win-2248470/|title=I-League: Defending champs Gokulam Kerala begin campaign with solid win|website=siasat.com|publisher=The Siasat Daily|date=26 August 2021|access-date=26 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226163819/https://www.siasat.com/i-league-defending-champs-gokulam-kerala-begin-campaign-with-solid-win-2248470/amp/|archive-date=26 December 2021}}

Club statistics

Club team	Year	Apps	Goals
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" \|+ Appearances and goals by club team and year
rowspan="3" \|Sriracha \|2012 \|0 \|0 \|0
2013 \|0 \|0 \|0
2014 \|0 \|0 \|0
rowspan="1" \|Chanthaburi \|2014	0	0	0
rowspan="3" \|Magwe \|2014	21	8	0
2015	22	7	0
2016	26	13	0
rowspan="1" \|Global Cebu \|2017	3	5	0
rowspan="2" \|Yangon United \|2018	28	29	6
2019	26	17	4
rowspan="1" \|Haiphong \|2020	0	0	0
rowspan="1" \|Churchill Brothers \|2022	8	0	1
rowspan="1" \|Yangon United \|2023	15	11	5
rowspan="1" \|Persikab Bandung \|2023	10	6	0
rowspan="1" \|Sheikh Russel KC \|2024	6	1	0
rowspan="1" \|Deltras \|2024	8	2	0
colspan="2" \|Total	173	99	11

Honours

Magwe

General Aung San Shield: 2016

Yangon United

Myanmar National League: 2018[https://themnl.com/ Myanmar National League] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203090816/https://themnl.com/ |date=2021-12-03 }} themnl.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021
General Aung San Shield: 2018

References

External links

[https://www.flashscore.in/player/sylla-sekou/2wsGxoxU/ Sekou Sylla profile] at flashscore.in
[https://www.transfermarkt.co.in/churchill-brothers-rope-in-sekou-sylla-39-goals-from-58-matches-in-myanmar-league/view/news/389205 Churchill Brothers rope in Sekou Sylla]

Category:Living people

Category:1992 births

Category:Guinean men's footballers

Category:21st-century Guinean sportsmen

Category:Footballers from Conakry

Category:Men's association football forwards

Category:Guinean expatriate men's footballers

Sekou Sylla

Category:Magwe F.C. players

Category:Global F.C. players

Category:Yangon United F.C. players

Category:Haiphong FC players