Tommy Sylvestre

Tommy Sylvestre ( born August 31, 1946) is a former Togolese football goalkeeper.

His career began in 1964 as Sylvestre Goalkeeper Football Club Étoile Filante from Lomé. With Étoile Filante he participated in the CAF Champions League in 1968/69 in part, in the course Étoile Filante was beaten only in the final against TP Mazembe Englebert from Lubumbashi itself. Even a 4-1 in the second leg on 30 March 1969 at Omnisport Stadium in Lome could not make up for the 0:5 defeat of the first leg.

For the Togolese national football team played its first match Sylvestre 1966. During the African Cup of Nations 1972, for which Togo had qualified for the first time under the German coach Gottlieb Goeller, Sylvestre stood in the gate of the Togolese. With two draws against Mali and Kenya and a defeat against the hosts Cameroon team from different however in the first round. Also in 1972 belonged Sylvestre as goalkeeper of the squad of African national team in the Copa Mini also referred to Taça Independencia, in a June 11 to July 9 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the independence of Brazil from Portugal discharged football tournament. Behind Sadok Sassi Attouga however, he had to be content with the role of reservists.

During the mini- Copa of the German third division Wormatia Worms announced mediated by the ex - Wormaten Goeller obligation Sylvestres. The dissolution of the Togolese Football Association in mid-July in 1972 and the accompanying change ban Togolese players abroad, the transfer but ultimately failed. 1974, shortly after the reform of the Togolese football, he moved to Côte d' Ivoire where he 1974-1978 Stade Abidjan and 1978-1982 for Stella Club Adjamé, both from the Ivorian capital Abidjan, played. With Stade d' Abidjan Sylvestre won the national cup in 1976, with Stella Club 1979 and 1981 the championship.