Gibreel Sankoh

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Gibreel Sankoh
Gibril Sankoh.jpg
Gibril Sankoh (left) in 2006
Personnel
birthday May 15, 1983
place of birth FreetownSierra Leone
size 186 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
until 2002 Royal Stars Freetown
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2004 De Kennemers Beverwijk
2004-2005 Stormbirds Telstar 17 (0)
2005-2010 FC Groningen 150 (0)
2010-2013 FC Augsburg 62 (0)
2013-2015 Henan Jianye 58 (2)
2015 Roda Kerkrade 17 (0)
2016-2017 Meizhou Hakka 58 (6)
2018-2019 ACV Assen 2 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2012-2013 Sierra Leone 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 20, 2020

Gibril Sankoh (born May 15, 1983 in Freetown , Sierra Leone ) is a former Dutch football player with roots from Sierra Leone.

Career

society

Gibril Sankoh started playing football in his native Sierra Leone at Royal Stars Freetown . He went to De Kennemers Beverwijk in 2002 . In the summer of 2004 he moved to the second division Stormvogels Telstar . After one season he moved to the first division club FC Groningen . There he was finally able to assert himself as a regular player and completed 150 games. In May 2010 he moved to the German second division club FC Augsburg on a free transfer . With the Augsburg team he finished second in the 2010/11 season and achieved promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time with the club . He made his debut in this on August 20, 2011 (3rd matchday) in the 0-2 defeat in the home game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .

At the beginning of February 2013, Sankoh moved to Henan Jianye FC in China at his own request . After two years with the club from the city of Zhengzhou , he moved to Roda Kerkrade in the Netherlands in the summer of 2015 . This was followed by positions at the Chinese second division club Meizhou Hakka and the Dutch amateur club ACV Assen . At the end of the 2018/19 season, he ended his career at the age of 36.

National team

In summer 2012, Sankoh decided to play for the national team of his native Sierra Leone . At the beginning of September 2012 he was nominated by the national coach Lars-Olof Mattsson for the Sierra Leonean national soccer team . On September 8, 2012, Sankoh made his debut in the national team in the first leg of the second qualifying round in the Africa Cup against Tunisia (2-2), when he was in the starting line-up and played through.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SC Heerenveen Forum , http://sc.heerenveen.org/ from January 19, 2005
  2. bild.de, accessed on May 24, 2010
  3. Player profile at transfermarkt.de