Olivier Occéan

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Olivier Occéan
Olivier Occean 2012.jpg
Olivier Occéan, 2012
Personnel
birthday October 23, 1981
place of birth Brossard , Quebec ,  Canada
size 185 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Longueuil Select Rive-Sud
2001-2003 Southern Connecticut State University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2003 Vermont Voltage 30 (19)
2004-2005 Odds BK 46 (22)
2006-2010 Lillestrøm SK 91 (34)
2010-2011 Kickers Offenbach 30 (16)
2011–2012 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 33 (17)
2012-2015 Eintracht Frankfurt 18 0(1)
2013-2014 →  1. FC Kaiserslautern  (loan) 27 0(3)
2015-2018 Odds BK 79 (27)
2018 Uraedd FK
2018– Mjøndalen IF 14 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002 Canada U-23 1 0(0)
2004–2012 Canada 28 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 29, 2018

Olivier Occéan [ ɔliv'je ɔkse'ã ] (born October 23, 1981 in Brossard , Québec ) is a Canadian football player .

Career

society

Occéan, the son of Haitian immigrants, played between 2001 and 2003 for the US-American Southern Connecticut State University in Division II of the NCAA and was chosen twice for the best selection All-American . He also played in the USL Premier Development League for Vermont Voltage while studying . After graduating, he was the 2004 MLS - Super Draft by the MetroStars selected from New York. However, before the start of the MLS season, the Norwegian football club Odd Grenland became aware of Occéan during a test match. Eventually Occéan was signed by the Norwegians without having played a competitive game for the MetroStars.

In the Tippeligaen , the first Norwegian soccer league, Occéan scored 22 goals in 46 games for Odd Grenland in two years and was poached by league rivals Lillestrøm SK at the end of 2005 with a five-year contract. In his first season at Lillestrøm he didn't score at all, his first competitive goal came in the last game of the season. By 2010 he had scored 34 goals in 91 games.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season Occéan moved to the German third division Kickers Offenbach . At OFC he scored 16 goals in 30 games.

In the summer break of 2011 Occéan moved to the then second division team SpVgg Greuther Fürth . He signed a three-year contract until June 30, 2014. For Fürth, he made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga on July 15, 2011 in the game against Eintracht Frankfurt , where he was in the starting line-up and hit his strike partner Christopher Nöthe . In total, he came to 33 missions in the 2011/12 season, in which he scored 17 goals and together with Alex Meier and Nick Proschwitz was top scorer in the second division.

For the 2012/13 season Occéan was from Eintracht Frankfurt commits. He signed a three-year contract. For the 2013/14 season he was awarded to 1. FC Kaiserslautern for two years . On July 20, 2013 he made his debut for FCK on matchday 1 in the away game against SC Paderborn , which FCK won 1-0. On November 12, 2014, his contract with Kaiserslautern was terminated.

In January 2015 Occéan returned on loan to Odds BK , where he moved permanently after his contract in Frankfurt expired in July 2015.

At the beginning of 2018 he left the club and moved to the lower class club Uraedd FK for half a year before joining second division Mjøndalen IF in August . With the club he was able to celebrate promotion to the Tippeligaen .

National team

In 2004 Occéan appeared in a friendly against Wales for the first time for the Canadian national football team . He scored two of his goals in the national team dress in Canada's 7-0 win on October 7, 2011 against St. Lucia .

Trivia

His name is usually mispronounced in the German media like the English word "ocean".

Occéan speaks English , French , Norwegian , German and Haitian .

Web links

Commons : Olivier Occéan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Occean's late career glory , accessed October 7, 2013
  2. ↑ kicker.de: Wolf gets a Canadian
  3. ↑ kicker.de: Occean storms for the shamrock
  4. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/trio-teilt-sich-torjaeger-titel-in-der-2-bundesliga/view/news/89747
  5. ^ "Want to play good football!" ( Memento from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Message on the Eintracht Frankfurt homepage of July 3, 2012 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
  6. ↑ FCK commits Olivier Occéan ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) fck.de, accessed on July 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Lautern dissolves contract with Occean . Sport1.de, November 12, 2014
  8. ↑ Olivier Occéan tilbake i odd}, official website of Odd Grenzland ( memento of the original from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Norwegian), Retrieved and published January 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.odd.no
  9. ↑ Olivier Occean ut 2017}, official website of Odd Grenzland ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Norwegian), Retrieved and published July 8, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.odd.no
  10. ↑ FIFA.com: Match Report St. Lucia - Canada
personal data
SURNAME Occéan, Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Brossard , Quebec , Canada