Dennis Oliech

Dennis Oliech
Personal information
Date of birth 2 February 1985 (1985-02-02) (age 27)
Place of birth Nairobi, Kenya
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Auxerre
Number 14
Youth career
2001–2003 Mathare United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2003–2005 Al-Arabi 17 (12)
2005–2007 Nantes 32 (4)
2007– Auxerre 151 (21)
National team‡
2002– Kenya ? (31)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC).

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Dennis Oliech (born on 2 February 1985) is a Kenyan professional football forward currently playing for Auxerre.

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Club career

Dennis Oliech started playing football for Dagoretti Santos in his earlier years, then Mathare United.

He turned professional in 2003 playing for Al-Arabi in Qatar until late 2005. In 2004 he was offered to change his citizenship form Kenyan to Qatari. but he refused the offer.[1]

In 2005, Oliech signed a four-year contract with the French Ligue 1 team FC Nantes and started playing for them at the start of 2006. However, FC Nantes were relegated in 2007 after finishing bottom of Ligue 1 and Oliech was signed on loan by Auxerre who were in need of goals after a bad start to their season. In January Auxerre signed him from Nantes. On September 25, 2011, Oliech scored his first ever hat-trick for Auxerre in a 4–1 win over Sochaux. The hat-trick was accomplished within the span of 16 minutes.

International career

His first international match was in 2002, when Kenya lost to Nigeria 3–0.

Having come on in the second half Oliech scored which was the winning goal for the national team in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers for the 2004 finals against Cape Verde Islands. He played at the 2004 African Cup of Nations. This was the same year he was voted as one of the most promising talents alongside Wayne Rooney of Manchester United.

International goals

Scores and results list Kenya's goal tally first.

Personal

His older brother, Nixon Onywanda, is the coach of the Kenyan Nationwide League side Dagoretti Santos (for which Oliech once played).[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "It's OK For Oliech to Hold Out For a Better Deal" (reprint, registration & fee required). The East African Standard (Kenya: allAfrica). 2 February 2004. http://allafrica.com/stories/200402040383.html. Retrieved 16 November 2011. 
  2. ^ The Standard, April 15, 2009: KPL slaps three-month ban on Denis Oliech’s brother

External links

Kenya squad – 2004 Africa Cup of Nations
AJ Auxerre – current squad