Omar Jatta

Omar Jatta ( born January 1, 1989 in Brikama ) is a Gambian football player.

Career

In his home country of Gambia Jatta played for the Hawks Banjul Football Club. As an asylum seeker, he came to Germany in 2008 and was quartered in Ravensburg. The following years Jatta played in the regional league Württemberg for the FV Ravensburg. In his third season in Ravensburg, he was charged with 32 goals scorer in the League Association and thus several clubs were aware of Jattas talent, including the Stuttgarter Kickers. However, this transfer had some bureaucratic obstacles, as Jatta was asylum seekers, he was allowed to leave the district of Ravensburg only with special permission to the friendlies. A day before the season got Jatta permission to play for the Kickers in the future, and signed a contract until the summer of 2013. The reason for the long wait was that the Football Association would like to avoid it, that football teams in underdeveloped countries, players buy and about the send asylum procedure in Germany. However Jattas football talent was not discovered until the FV Ravensburg, so that the authorities gave the green light. On July 21, 2012, he made ​​his professional debut in the 1-2 defeat against FC Hansa Rostock was when he brought on in the 87th minute. In June 2013 Jatta extended his contract expiring in Stuttgart for another year. This was dissolved again but already on 31 January 2014.