Dennis Oliech
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dennis Oguta Oliech | ||
| Date of birth | 2 February 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001–2003 | Mathare United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2005 | Al-Arabi | 17 | (12) |
| 2005–2007 | Nantes | 32 | (4) |
| 2007–2012 | Auxerre | 165 | (25) |
| 2013–2015 | Ajaccio | 50 | (8) |
| 2015 | Dubai CSC | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2002– | Kenya | 68 | (34) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 September 2015 |
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Dennis Oguta Oliech (pronounced [ˈdɛnɪs oˈgutɑ olˈjetʃ]; born 2 February 1985) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays for the Kenya national team as a striker.
Oliech started playing football for Dagoretti Santos in his earlier years, then Mathare United. While in his youth career, Oliech went on trial with Ligue 1 side Marseille, but Mathare United chairman Bob Munro blocked the move from happening.
Oliech turned professional in 2003 playing for Al-Arabi in Qatar until late 2005. In 2004, he was offered a chance to change his citizenship from Kenyan to Qatari. But he refused the offer. At age nineteen, Oliech was named by British newspaper as one of the world's most wanted young players.
While at Qatar, Oliech played alongside Stefan Effenberg and Gabriel Batistuta during their time at Qatar. In 2005, Al-Arabi turned down a Sh100m offer from Monaco to sign Oliech. During the same year, Al-Arabi was told to pay US$15,000 compensation to his youth club by the Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC), as the move to sign Oliech. His goalscoring form is well known for goal poacher.
In 2005, Oliech signed a four-year contract with the French Ligue 1 team Nantes, with the fee of $3.7 million (Ksh. 281.2 million). Upon the move in January, Oliech was given a number nine shirt. However, his youth club Mathare United claims Nantes owed them Sh14m, but the claims were dismissed.
Shortly after signing for Nantes, Oliech hadn't made a great start in France after a knee operation. Then, thirty-days later, he was given all-clear by the doctors and returned to training. He made his debut, on 11 March 2006, when he came on for Julio Hernán Rossi, in the 66th minute, as Nante drew 1-1 with Lille. Three weeks later, on 1 April 2006, Oliech scored his first goal, in the round of 16 in the Coupe de France to send them to the quarter-final, in a 1-0 win over Dijon. and his second goal was followed up in the league match, in a 3-1 loss against Marseille. Later in the 2005-06 season, Oliech made nine appearance and scoring twice.
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