Sekou Oliseh
Sekou Oliseh in November 2009
Sekou Oliseh Jabateh ( born June 5, 1990 in Monrovia, Liberia ) is a Liberian - Nigerian football player at the position of a midfielder who can also be used as a striker and on the wings. Currently, he plays in the Russian first division club CSKA Moscow. While there he runs only by his first name Sekou (Russian Секу ), he is known in his native Liberia almost exclusively under the name Jabateh.
He is the adoptive son of former professional football players and current football coach Churchill Oliseh, who is among other things, as the discoverer of the Nigerian football talent Obafemi Martins. Sekou Oliseh Azubuike Olisehs uncle, Egutu Oliseh and Sunday Oliseh are or were also active in professional football.
Club career
Career start in Nigeria and move to Denmark
Born in Liberian capital in 1990, Oliseh was still in his early years as a refugee of the Liberian civil war to Nigeria, where he was brought from Churchill Oliseh from a refugee camp, adopted and brought to the sport of football. After the boy several years been active in Nigeria, he came at a young age for a short time in his native country, where he was employed in the youth department of the Liberian first division Gedi & Sons. Upon his return to Nigeria, he was demonstrably 2005-2006 the newcomers FC Ebedei active, in which his adoptive father is still involved as president and coach. Due to the cooperation of the FC Ebedei, which is to be regarded as a branch or sister club of FC Midtjylland, the young Liberian - Nigerian talent abolished in January 2007, the jump in Danish football. He was initially mainly in the club's youth and the Academy for use and brought it finally in the season 2008 / 09 for his pro debut.
Professional debut for FC Midtjylland
He came on 31 July 2008 at the UEFA Cup qualifier first leg against Bangor City ( 4-0 ) to use and was adhered substituted at half time for the Norwegian Petter Furuseth. After that it took about three months to Oliseh 26 October 2008 came at the 0-3 away defeat against Brøndby IF for half-time for the Swedish striker Ken Fagerberg on the lawn and thus made his debut in the top Danish football league. Oliseh was at this time at U-19 level and had not even made it to this point in the squad of the second fight team of the club. After some further conscription into the professional squad Oliseh was finally brought in April 2009 in the squad of the second team, for which he henceforth was used. In parallel, he was in May 2009 in three other league games of the professional team in use, but did not brief appearances as a substitute beyond. His U-19 career he finished earlier in March of the same year.
With a fourth place in the final standings of the 2008/ 09 Oliseh started with the professional team in the season 2009/ 10, in which he was, however, again mainly used in the second team. Nevertheless, he brought it this season an appearance in the Super League, but was invited back in August 2009 on a multi-day trial to Russia CSKA Moscow. At the end of June 2009, expressed his interest in the offensive talent and the young players brought a round two-week trial to training camp in Austria with Lok.Moscow another Russian club. After the transfer to Lok.Moscow did not work, the club announced on 1 September 2009 announced the change Olisehs free loan to CSKA Moscow. There he signed a loan contract until the end, which was also an option to purchase was being linked.
Debut to measure at CSKA Moscow
When Russian first division club he celebrated a debut to measure, when he came 4 October 2009 in a 4-0 win over Kuban Krasnodar in 69 minutes for Centre Forward Tomáš Necid on the lawn. Here, in 74 minutes, he managed to pass template for the 2-0 lead hit by Miloš Krasić, who was only preliminary decision for the eventual 4-0 win of the capital club, which was sealed by a header from Oliseh in 80 minutes. Four other championship inserts followed thereafter until the end of season. Then Oliseh gave only his debut in the UEFA Champions League and said goodbye then into the winter break of the game in 2009 when Champions League group stage match against Beşiktaş Istanbul on 8 December 2009 Oliseh came on in the 82nd minute for the injured Krasić. ; the game ended after a late opening goal by Evgeni Valeryevich Aldonin ( 95 ) in a 2-1 away victory of the Russians. Following the team managed to reach the quarter -finals of the competition where it was eliminated, however, against the later CL- winners Inter Milan with a total score of 0:2 from the current tournament. For the native Liberians, however no longer ranged for another Champions League use. Oliseh was taken from the Russian capital club fix under contract, as this drew the option to buy him and submitted a five-year contract in December 2009. In March 2010, Oliseh was the Russian Super Cup in 2010 in the squad of CSKA Moscow, but sat the entire game on the bench.
In the game year 2010, the fast and agile offensive athlete has already been used on a regular basis, but no real breakthrough celebrated anyway. Instead, in five games of Russian Youth Championship was active, in which he scored one goal. There he was last year in the two encounters in use, where he also once came to scoring. After a long break, he found only in May in the tenth championship round back into the first team, where he, however, also brought it just a short-term use. As a result of the Football World Cup 2010 game operation was suspended until July 8, 2010, Oliseh had enough time to prepare for any missions after the World Cup. After the World Cup finals in South Africa, the committed midfielder frequently been used from the beginning in the Premjer league and until end of the season already an integral part of the starting eleven of Moscow, where he mostly stood on the total playing time of place. At season's end Oliseh has been with the team with six points behind Zenit St. Petersburg runner-up in the highest soccer league in Russia. The 20- year-old was employed in 16 league games in which he came to scoring three times and gave two assists. These two inserts and one assist in the Europa League Qualifying 2010/11, and five inserts were (1 goal and 2 assists) in the subsequent main competition in which the team currently (as of December 2010), after five of the six group games won ( a draw ), is in the second round of the tournament. Due to the placement in the Premjer League final table Sekou Oliseh also participates in the UEFA Champions League 2011/12 part.
In the Winter 2013 Oliseh was given until the end of the season at PAOK Thessaloniki.
National team career
From a young age the members of the people of the Mandinka got many convocations of Nigerian junior national team, which he, however, all of them refused because he wanted to play exclusively for his native country. While CSKA Moscow reported in August 2010 by a Einrufung Olisehs in the Liberian national team, the versatile player was finally really convened in September 2010 by the head coach of the Liberian national team, the Hungarian Bertalan Bicskei, for a qualifying match for the African Cup in 2012 against Zimbabwe. In an interview he said that it is due to the influence of former Liberian footballer George Weah world, that he found his way into the national team of Liberia. His debut in the national team, he finally announced on September 5 in the 1-1 draw against Zimbabwe as he played through the full match times and in the 79th minute after an assist by Solomon Grimes scored the 1-1 draw with a header. About a month later he was once more over the full match duration in use in qualifying match against Mali.
Currently (as of December 2010) takes Oliseh with the Liberian U-23 selection of the qualifying matches for the football tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics in part.