Kabba Samura
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Kabba Samura is a Sierra Leonean international soccer player and as well a Swedish Citizen European passport holder. He is currently playing for the Vietnam
's V-League
club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
.
in the Sierra Leonean Premier League. He made his debut at his club where he started his career at the age of 14 years. Was taunted as the best whizkid during his youth age in Sierra Leone, later moved to Europe at a young age to play for IFK Ölme
during this same year while playing for IFK Ölme
was also under the raiding light of IFK Göteborg
.
B team and develop his talent after playing two season for IFK Ölme
. While playing for IFK Göteborg
B team his ability to hold the ball and run with him caused so many damage in IFK Göteborg
B team and was promoted to the IFK Göteborg
first team. On his senior debut for IFK Göteborg
he scored against AIK
- his first and only goal for the club.
in Superettan
on a loan in 2003. He scored two goals in the Swedish Cup
against his former teammates in IFK Göteborg as Assyriska advanced to the semi-finals. The club also qualified to the finals after a 4-0 win against Djurgårdens IF, but lost against IF Elfsborg
. The club made the move permanent after his impressive performances. The next season would prove to be even more successful as he led the team in scoring with 14 league goals, helping the team to a third place finish. The club losthe qualification bout against Örgryte IS
, but would later earn promotion as Örebro SK
were relegated due to financial reasons.
Samura also led the team in scoring during the 2005 season with three goals in 22 appearances, but could not help the team avoid relegation as the club finished last. Samura left the team after the season as his contract expired.
in the Greek Super League
.
Later that year he moved to Aalesunds FK in Norwegian
Adeccoligaen
2006 on a short-term loan where he helped the team earn a promotion to the Norwegian Premier League
, scoring three goals in nine appearances.
in Finnish football premier in 2007 where he enjoyed a lot of playing time, but unfortunately has a hard time finding the net. The season ended with three goals in 18 appearances as HJK finished in a disappointing seventh place, far away from a title race.
in the Swedish Northern Division 1
(third tier) where he joined personal friends Charles Sampson
and Aluspah Brewah
. Samura's debut could have been better as he was sent off in the 54th minute after hitting an opponent in the face and Boden subsequently lost the game against Gröndals IK
0-1. The rest of the season would not prove to be any better as the team was relegated. Samura was rarely featured in the starting line-up and the season was marked by disagreements with the coach Zvezdan Milosevic. Milosevic left the club during the season, but Samura was unable to lift under new coaches Lars "Brolla" Svensson and Jonas Larsson. He ended the season with only two goals scored and declared that he intended to leave the newly relegated club just as Sampson and Brewah already had done.
club FK Mughan
in January 2010. In May 2011, he signed a short-term contract with Vietnam
's V-League
club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
.
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
's V-League
V-League
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team could use three foreigners on the field each game.As 2009 statistics, about half of V-League foreign players are Brazilian and the rest come from Argentina, Nigeria, Ghana, Czech Republic, Thailand and others.-Attendance:V-League...
club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
Hoang Anh Gia Lai
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai is a Vietnamese soccer club based in Pleiku. They play in the top division in Vietnamese soccer. Their home stadium is Pleiku Stadium.The team signed an agreement with Arsenal F.C...
.
Early career
Samura began his career with Mighty BlackpoolMighty Blackpool
Mighty Blackpool is a Sierra Leonean football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in the country. Blackpool represent the West End of Freetown and their home games are played at the National Stadium in Freetown...
in the Sierra Leonean Premier League. He made his debut at his club where he started his career at the age of 14 years. Was taunted as the best whizkid during his youth age in Sierra Leone, later moved to Europe at a young age to play for IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme is a Swedish football club located in Kristinehamn in Värmland County. -Background:Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Ölme were formed in 1942...
during this same year while playing for IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme is a Swedish football club located in Kristinehamn in Värmland County. -Background:Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Ölme were formed in 1942...
was also under the raiding light of IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
.
IFK Göteborg
Later sign him up to play for IFK GöteborgIFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
B team and develop his talent after playing two season for IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme
IFK Ölme is a Swedish football club located in Kristinehamn in Värmland County. -Background:Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Ölme were formed in 1942...
. While playing for IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
B team his ability to hold the ball and run with him caused so many damage in IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
B team and was promoted to the IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
first team. On his senior debut for IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
he scored against AIK
Allmänna Idrottsklubben
Allmänna Idrottsklubben , currently located in Solna, north of Stockholm, is one of the largest and one of the oldest sports clubs in Scandinavia. AIK was founded in 1891 in central Stockholm, at the downtown address of Biblioteksgatan 8...
- his first and only goal for the club.
Assyriska FF
After seeing limited playing time in Göteborg. he moved to Assyriska FFAssyriska Föreningen
Assyriska Föreningen is a Swedish football club based in Södertälje. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan. They played in the highest Swedish football league Allsvenskan in...
in Superettan
Superettan
Superettan is the second highest league in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 16 Swedish football teams. It was created in 2000. Before that, the second level league in Sweden had been Division 1....
on a loan in 2003. He scored two goals in the Swedish Cup
Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen , is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. Svenska Cupen usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Each year 98 teams compete, comprising the 16 teams from Allsvenskan and the 16 teams of Superettan...
against his former teammates in IFK Göteborg as Assyriska advanced to the semi-finals. The club also qualified to the finals after a 4-0 win against Djurgårdens IF, but lost against IF Elfsborg
IF Elfsborg
IF Elfsborg is a Swedish football club located in Borås. The club has won five national championship titles, the latest in 2006, and two national cup titles. Currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan. Elfsborg is based at Borås Arena...
. The club made the move permanent after his impressive performances. The next season would prove to be even more successful as he led the team in scoring with 14 league goals, helping the team to a third place finish. The club losthe qualification bout against Örgryte IS
Örgryte IS
Örgryte IS, also commonly referred to as ÖIS, is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg.-History:The club was founded on 4 December 1887 and participated in the first football match in Sweden on 22 May 1892. Örgryte IS has won 12 national championship titles and one national cup title. After...
, but would later earn promotion as Örebro SK
Örebro SK
Örebro SK, also known as ÖSK or just Örebro, is a Swedish football club based in Örebro. The club, formed on 28 October 1908, is currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan.-The first years:...
were relegated due to financial reasons.
Samura also led the team in scoring during the 2005 season with three goals in 22 appearances, but could not help the team avoid relegation as the club finished last. Samura left the team after the season as his contract expired.
OFI Crete and loan to Aalesund
After several trials at different clubs, Samura finally signed for OFI CreteOFI Crete
OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...
in the Greek Super League
Super League Greece
The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...
.
Later that year he moved to Aalesunds FK in Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
Adeccoligaen
Adeccoligaen
The Norwegian First Division is the second highest division of the Norwegian football league system. Since 2005, the official name of the league has been Adeccoligaen....
2006 on a short-term loan where he helped the team earn a promotion to the Norwegian Premier League
Tippeligaen
Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
, scoring three goals in nine appearances.
HJK Helsinki
He played for HJK HelsinkiHJK Helsinki
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi , internationally known as HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki...
in Finnish football premier in 2007 where he enjoyed a lot of playing time, but unfortunately has a hard time finding the net. The season ended with three goals in 18 appearances as HJK finished in a disappointing seventh place, far away from a title race.
Return to Sweden
At the start of the 2008 season Samura signed a 3-year contract with Bodens BKBodens BK
Bodens BK is a Swedish football club located in Boden in Norrbotten. The club, formed 1916, is currently playing in the third highest Swedish league, Division 1...
in the Swedish Northern Division 1
Division 1 Norra
Division 1 Norra is one of two leagues of the third level, Division 1, in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 14 Swedish football teams...
(third tier) where he joined personal friends Charles Sampson
Charles Sampson
Charles "Charlie" Sampson is the 1982 World Champion Bull Rider. He is the first Afro-American to win a World Title in the PRCA- Early life :...
and Aluspah Brewah
Aluspah Brewah
Aluspah Brewah is an international football player. He is a striker for Tianjin Songjiang in the China League One and also for the Sierra Leone national football team.-Early career:...
. Samura's debut could have been better as he was sent off in the 54th minute after hitting an opponent in the face and Boden subsequently lost the game against Gröndals IK
Gröndals IK
Gröndals IK is a Swedish football club from Gröndal in South Stockholm. Since 2011 they have been playing in Division 6 Stockholm E which is the 8th tier in Swedish league football.-Season to season:-Current squad:As of 18 March 2011:...
0-1. The rest of the season would not prove to be any better as the team was relegated. Samura was rarely featured in the starting line-up and the season was marked by disagreements with the coach Zvezdan Milosevic. Milosevic left the club during the season, but Samura was unable to lift under new coaches Lars "Brolla" Svensson and Jonas Larsson. He ended the season with only two goals scored and declared that he intended to leave the newly relegated club just as Sampson and Brewah already had done.
Later career
Samura moved to AzerbaijaniAzerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
club FK Mughan
FK Mughan
FK Mughan Salyan is an Azerbaijani football club, based in Salyan. The club reached the Azerbaijan Premier League for the first time in 2008-2009. The club was first promoted after FK Masallı withdrew for the 2008/09 season...
in January 2010. In May 2011, he signed a short-term contract with Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
's V-League
V-League
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team could use three foreigners on the field each game.As 2009 statistics, about half of V-League foreign players are Brazilian and the rest come from Argentina, Nigeria, Ghana, Czech Republic, Thailand and others.-Attendance:V-League...
club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
Hoang Anh Gia Lai
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai is a Vietnamese soccer club based in Pleiku. They play in the top division in Vietnamese soccer. Their home stadium is Pleiku Stadium.The team signed an agreement with Arsenal F.C...
.
External links
- Guardian's Stats Centre
- Swedish http://www.svt.se/svt/articles/7400-7499/7418/
- Greek http://www.ofi.gr/player.aspx?id=1124&y=2005-06&pl_id=866
- Finnish http://www.hjk.fi/joukkueet/pelaajat/?J=&hae=58