Tijan Jaiteh (born 31 December 1988) is a Gambian

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for Al-Markhiya. He was captain of Gambia's international youth team for a number of years. And is currently the captain of the senior national team Appointed as good will ambassador of The Gambia Tijan Jaiteh is accorded full diplomatic status “

Club career

In 2005, Jaiteh, along with three of his countrymen, came to

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on a trial for the

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club

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...

. The club secured exclusive rights to buy all four of the young

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ns. In October 2006 it became clear that only Jaiteh passed the bar, and he joined

in January 2007. He won the

with Brann the same year. 31 January 2011 he was loaned out to

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. On 5 February 2019 it was confirmed, that Jaiteh had signed a one-year contract with

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International

Jaiteh competed in the

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where Gambia finished third and got qualified for the

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. Jaiteh was part of Gambian U-20 team at both tournaments, and Gambia ended knocked out by

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in the

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at U-20 World cup.

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* * 1988 births Living people Gambian men's footballers The Gambia men's youth international footballers The Gambia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders SK Brann players Randers FC players Sandefjord Fotball players FC Koper players Kuopion Palloseura players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players Al-Markhiya SC players FK Partizani Tirana players Eliteserien players Danish Superliga players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Israeli Premier League players Qatar Stars League players Kategoria Superiore players Gambian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar Expatriate men's footballers in Albania Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar Gambian expatriate sportspeople in Albania {{Gambia-footy-bio-stub