Stéphane Sessègnon

Stéphane Sessègnon
Stéphane Sessègnon (2013)
Personnel
birthday	June 1, 1984
place of birth	Allahe ,  Benin
size	172 cm
position	Midfielder (right)
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2003	Requins de l'Atlantique FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2004	Requins de l'Atlantique FC
2004-2006	US Créteil	68 (10)
2006-2008	UC Le Mans	61 0(6)
2008-2011	Paris Saint-Germain	77 0(8)
2011-2013	Sunderland AFC	87 (17)
2013-2016	West Bromwich Albion	79 0(8)
2016-2018	HSC Montpellier	43 0(3)
2018–	Gençlerbirliği	16 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004–	Benin	73 (21)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 26, 2018 2 As of December 26, 2018

Stéphane Sessègnon (born June 1, 1984 in Allahe , Benin ) is a Beninese football player . The right midfielder was first active in 2004 in the Benin national team . He is a grandson of the former Beninese President Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo .

Sessègnon joined the French club US Créteil from Requins de l'Atlantique FC in Benin in 2004 and played 68 games in the second division for the club in two years . In 2006 he moved to the first division UC Le Mans . There he was able to fight for a regular place after brief teething problems and completed 31 league games for the club in the 2006/07 season.

From the summer of 2008 he played for three years for the French first division club Paris Saint-Germain .

In January 2011, he was then signed for seven million euros by AFC Sunderland .

After further stints at West Bromwich Albion and HSC Montpellier , Sessègnon signed another contract with the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği until 2019 at the age of 33 .

For the national team of Benin Sessègnon completed at least 16 senior internationals. He was part of the Ecureuils squad at the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana.

Web links

• Profile at UC Le Mans
• Statistics on lfp.fr
• Stéphane Sessègnon in the database of weltfussball.de
• Stéphane Sessègnon in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Stéphane Sessègnon in the database of soccerbase.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yeni transferimiz Stephane Sessegnon. In: genclerbirligi.org.tr. Gençlerbirliği Ankara , accessed January 24, 2018 (Turkish).