Samuel Barlay
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 September 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Freetown, Sierra Leone | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking Midfielder/Central Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| –2004 | East End Lions | ||
| 2004–2007 | Malmö FF | 4 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Mariehamn (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Örgryte (loan) | 18 | (5) |
| 2008–2009 | Mariehamn | 15 | (0) |
| 2010 | Syrianska | 20 | (4) |
| 2010 | Mughan | 6 | (1) |
| 2011–2013 | Ravan Baku | 56 | (5) |
| 2013–2014 | AZAL | 24 | (1) |
| 2014 | Syrianska | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2002–2003 | Sierra Leone U-20 | 8 | (0) |
| 2004– | Sierra Leone[1] | 17 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Samuel Barlay (born 15 September 1986 in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer, who is currently suspended indefinitely over allegations of match-fixing.
Career
Early career
Samuel Barlay was born and raised in Freetown. He started his professional football career with top Sierra Leonean club East End Lions in the Sierra Leone National Premier League in 2003.
Professional career
He signed for Malmö FF from Sierra Leonean East End Lions shortly after the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship. In 2006 he was on a season long loan at IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga.[2] In 2008 he returned to "Grönvitt" after a loan spell at Örgryte IS in the Swedish second tier of football.[3]
Barlay left IFK Mariehamn, six months before his contract was due to expire, in April 2009.[4]
Following the end of his contract with Syrianska IF, Barlay went on trial with Syrianska FC in January 2011,[5] before signing with Azerbaijan Premier League side FK Mughan.[6]
Barlay left Ravan Baku at the end of his two-year contract in the summer of 2013.[7] Following his release from Ravan Baku, Barlay signed for fellow Azerbaijan Premier League side AZAL on a one-year contract, with the option of a second.[8]
In June 2014 Barlay joined Division 2 Norra Svealand side Syrianska.[9][10]
In July 2014, Barlay was suspended in-defiantly, along with Ibrahim Koroma, Ibrahim Kargbo and Christian Caulker over allegations of match-fixing relating to a Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa which ended 0-0.[11]
International career
He was the captain of the Sierra Leone U-17 national football team at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland. Barlay is a first choice at the central midfield position for the Leone Stars, as the Sierra Leone national football team is known. He won a penalty for his country which was converted by Mohamed Kallon that gave the Leone Stars a 1–0 win over South Africa in the 2010 FIFA World Cup/2010 African Cup of Nations qualifying match played in June 2008 in Freetown.
International goals
- Scores and results list Sierra Leone's goal tally first.
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 9 June 2012 | Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo |  Equatorial Guinea | | | 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier |
Career statistics
| Season | Club | League | League | Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||||
| 2005 | Malmö | Allsvenskan | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2006 | IFK Mariehamn (loan) | Veikkausliiga | 9 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | ||||
| 2007 | Örgryte (loan) | Superettan | 18 | 5 | — | 18 | 5 | ||||
| 2008 | IFK Mariehamn | Veikkausliiga | 15 | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2010 | Syrianska | Division 1 | 20 | 4 | — | 20 | 4 | ||||
| 2010–11[16] | Mughan | Azerbaijan Premier League | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 1 | ||
| 2011–12[17] | Ravan Baku | 28 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 29 | 4 | |||
| 2012–13[18] | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 30 | 1 | ||||
| 2013–14 | AZAL | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 25 | 1 | |||
| Total | 152 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 158 | 16 | |||
References
- ↑ Samuel Barlay at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ Veikkausliiga profile (Finnish)
- ↑ Svenskfotboll profile (Swedish)
- ↑ "Samuel Barlay jättää IFK Mariehamnin" (in Finnish). http://www.veikkausliiga.com/. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "Barlay to undergo trials with new Swedish top division team". http://sierraleonefootball.com/. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "Barlay to miss Nigeria friendly". http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "2 legionerlə roads were" (in Azerbaijani). www.revanfc.az/. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ↑ "Azal PFC sign Barlay". sierraexpressmedia.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- ↑ "Publicerad 19 jun 2014 07:00 Så ska Syrianska köra över VIK". vlt.se (in Swedish). VLT. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ↑ "Big-Sam återvänder till klubben". www.syrianskaif.com (in Swedish). Syrianska. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ "Sierra Leone match-fixing: Captain Kargbo one of 15 suspended". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport''. BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/africa/matches/round=258334/match=300181919/report.html
- ↑ "Samuel Barlay" (in Swedish). http://svenskfotboll.se/. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "S. BARLAY". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "Samuel Barlay". http://www.national-football-teams.com/. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ "Premier League Stats 2010/11" (PDF). http://www.pfl.az/. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ↑ "Premier League Stats 2011/12" (PDF). http://www.pfl.az/. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ↑ "Premier League Stats 2012/13" (PDF). http://www.pfl.az/. Retrieved 11 September 2013.