Dominic Chatto
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dominic Chatto Bashir Jamilu | ||
| Date of birth | 7 December 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Kaduna, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Falkenberg | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Pepsi Football Academy | |||
| Highlanders Football Academy | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Heartland FC | |||
| –2004 | FC Sheraton | ||
| 2004–2006 | AS Racines | ||
| 2007–2008 | Inter Turku | 47 | (6) |
| 2009–2013 | Häcken | 121 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Bodø/Glimt | 44 | (3) |
| 2016 | Ordabasy | 29 | (0) |
| 2017– | Falkenberg | 0 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 March 2017. | |||
Dominic Chatto Bashir Jamilu (born 7 December 1985 in Kaduna, Nigeria) is a football midfielder from Nigeria who plays for Falkenbergs FF in Superettan. He has played three times in Nigerian youth teams.
Chatto started playing football in the age of six. He developed into one of the most talented players of his region and was always chosen to lead his team as a captain. Chatto learned to play football in Pepsi Football Academy in Nigeria. Before moving to Nigerian Premier League and Heartland FC he trained also in Highlanders Football Academy. In the league he succeeded so well that, in 2005, he was given a tryout in Blackburn Rovers. Eventually, he didn't get a work permit, because he hadn't played in 70 percent of national team matches. Despite this, Blackburn and Mark Hughes wanted to sign a contract and send Chatto to Cercle Brugge for a loan. Chatto refused to go to Brugge, because he would have had to wait three months to get a playing right for the Belgium league. After England, he visited Dynamo Kiev and Brøndby IF, but didn't get a contract offer. He chose to go back to Nigeria and wait for new offers from European clubs.
His professional career in Europe started in 2007, when Finnish Veikkausliiga club FC Inter Turku signed him. In his first season, he was voted as the third-best player in the league and was called up to the Nigerian under-23 national team. After the season, he signed a new year-long contract with the Turku-based club. In the 2008 season, Chatto was linked with a move to Slovakian FC Senec, Serbian FK Partizan and Red Star Belgrade. The owner of FC Inter refused to sell without a large transfer fee and Chatto stayed in the club. In the last match of the championship season Serie A club Atalanta B.C. was scouting Chatto. Some Russian league clubs were after him and also FC Inter offered him a new contract and was hoping to keep the player. After the season 2008, Chatto was voted for Veikkausliiga players' player of the season.
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