Kewullay Conteh

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Kewullay Conteh
Personal information
Full name	Kewullay Conteh
Date of birth	December 31, 1977 (age 28)
Place of birth	Freetown, Sierra Leone
Position	Right/centre back
Club information
Current club	Atalanta B.C.
Youth clubs
1994-1995	FC Café Opera
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1995-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000-2002 2002-2006 2006-	Atalanta FC Café Opera Chievo Verona Venezia Palermo Atalanta	2 (0) 0 (0) 60 (1) 44 (0) 69 (1) - (-)
National team**
?-	Sierra Leone	? (?)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 30, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of N/A.

Kewullay Conteh (born 31 December 1977 in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A side Atalanta B.C.. He is tall 185 cm, weighs 78 kg, and wears the #25 jersey for the rosanero.

Conteh moved first in Italy in November 1995, joining Serie A team Atalanta from Swedish side FC Café Opera (now FC Väsby United). He played two times for Atalanta, all in his first season with the nerazzurri, making his debut in a 1-0 loss against Fiorentina on April 20, 1996. After a short stint back to FC Café Opera, Conteh then joined Serie B side Chievo Verona on January 1998. He played three seasons for the flying donkeys, before signing for Venezia in 2000. After two seasons for Venezia, one in Serie B and one in Serie A, Conteh, together with many other team players, left Venezia for Palermo in 2002 after chairman Maurizio Zamparini bought the Sicilian team. He plays for Palermo since then, in more recent times as a backbench player.

Kewullay Conteh made his debut in the 2005-2006 season on January, after having been ignored by coach Luigi Del Neri during all his time in Palermo, and however being reconsidered by substitute Giuseppe Papadopulo, who made him play first in a UEFA Cup match played away against SK Slavia Praha, in which Conteh scored a goal. After a number of impressive showings, Conteh renewed his contract for Palermo, which was due in June 2006, for two more years. In August 2006 he moved to Atalanta B.C..

He is also a regular for the Sierra Leone national football team.

[edit] External link

• (Italian) Conteh's profile (from US Palermo official website)

Atalanta B.C. - Current Squad
2 Talamonti | 3 Adriano | 5 Donati | 6 Bellini | 7 Bombardini | 8 Bernardini | 9 Zampagna | 10 Ventola | 11 Cisse | 15 Loria | 16 Rivalta | 17 Vieri | 18 Ivan | 19 Ariatti | 20 Manzoni | 21 Tissone | 22 Centi | 23 Abeijon | 25 Conteh | 26 Migliaccio | 27 Calderoni | 34 Defendi | 72 Doni | 79 Ferreira Pinto | 80 Carrozzieri | 99 Soncin