Sunday Oliseh
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| Full name | Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 14 September 1974 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Abavo, Delta State, Nigeria | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Fortuna Sittard | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Julius Berger | |||||||||||
| 1990–1994 | RFC Liège | 75 | (3) | |||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Reggiana | 29 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1995–1997 | 1. FC Köln | 54 | (4) | |||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Ajax | 54 | (8) | |||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Juventus | 8 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Borussia Dortmund | 53 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2003–2004 | → VfL Bochum (loan) | 32 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Genk | 16 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 321 | (18) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1993–2002 | Nigeria | 54 | (2) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Eupen (Sports director) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Verviétois | |||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Nigeria | |||||||||||
| 2017– | Fortuna Sittard | |||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sunday Ogorchukwu Oliseh (born 14 September 1974) is a Nigerian football manager and former player who is the current manager of Dutch Eerste Divisie side Fortuna Sittard. In his active playing career he played as a midfielder.
Started his coaching Career in Belgium with youth teams of Belgian 3rd Division Verviers, notably the Under 19 team. Graduated to the first team as chief coach season 2008-2009 Verviers, -2014/2015 season was appointed as the Chief Coach and Club Manager of RCS VISE Belgium 3rd Division In 2015-2016, was appointed by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) the National Team Chief Coach of Nigeria (Super Eagles of Nigeria) where he made an impressive statistic of; 14 Games (Only 2 losses) 19 Goals scored, 6 conceded. He qualified Nigeria to the CHAN tournament in Rwanda, qualified Nigeria to the Group phase of the 2018 world cup Qualifiers and on his first game as Chief Coach of Nigeria in an AFCON qualifier managed a draw in Tanzania. He resigned as Nigeria's national coach at about 2:28am on 26 February 2016 exactly a month to the team's encounter with the Pharaohs of Egypt in the AFCON qualifiers. He was barely 8 months into his stay as manager due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages and benefits to his players, Asst. Coaches and himself. On 27 December 2016, it was announced that Oliseh had been appointed as the new manager of Fortuna Sittard.
A physical, technical defensive midfielder, Oliseh played for well world-famous clubs such as AFC Ajax, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus F.C..
Oliseh played 63 international matches and scored three goals for Nigeria, and played at the Football World Cups of 1994 and 1998. Oliseh also participated in the Olympic gold medal winning team of 1996. Sunday Oliseh was voted Africa's 3rd best footballer in 1998 by CAF
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