Sekou Sylla (born 1 January 1992) is a Guinean professional

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who plays as a striker for Liga 2 club Deltras. He is Yangon United's all-time third-highest goalscorer with 53 Goals.

Club career

Sriracha

Sylla began his professional career at

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Thai Division 1 League Thai League 2 (), commonly known as the T2, formally called Thai Division 1 League, is the second-tier professional league in the Thai football league system. Seasons typically run from August to May, with each team playing 34 games : two agai ...

in March 2012 and played until December 2012.

Chanthaburi

In January 2014, he signed with Thai side

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, competing in League 3 but did not appear in any league match.

Magwe

In 2014, Sylla moved to the

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and signed with Magwe. He represented the club in

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, where he made four appearances, notching an equalizer to tie with Malaysian side

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1–1, and another goal to salvage a 1–1 draw with Cambodian side Boeung Ket. With Magwe, he appeared in 88 league matches between 2014 and 2017, scoring 18 goals. He also won the 2016 General Aung San Shield with them, defeating Yangon 2–1.

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, and earning the man of the match award. He played only three matches for the

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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

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, and MPT Charity Cup. With Yangon, he played in the

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and scored 10 goals in 7 matches. He was in the squad of United, that won

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defeating Hanthawaddy United 2–1, where he scored a goal. In 2018, Yangon also won the Myanmar National League title and Sylla emerged as second highest goalscorer with 17 goals, behind

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. Between 2017 and 2019, he scored a total of 41 goals in 53 matches.

Haiphong

In 2020, he moved to Vietnamese

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side

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Churchill Brothers

In July 2021, Sylla signed for

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outfit

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for their 2021–22 I-League season. He is the first foreign recruit of the season for the

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-based side. He made his debut in their 1–0 defeat to Gokulam Kerala on 26 December.

Club statistics

Honours

Magwe *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Yangon United *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Myanmar National League
''themnl.com''. Retrieved 18 July 2021 *

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