Personal information | |||
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Full name | William Jebor | ||
Date of birth | 10 November 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Monrovia, Liberia | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Wydad Casablanca (on loan from Rio Ave) |
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Youth career | |||
LISCR | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | LPRC Oilers | 10 | (14) |
2009–2010 | Taliya | 15 | (14) |
2010–2011 | Tersana | 10 | (8) |
2011–2012 | Al-Sharquia Lel-Dokhan | 14 | (14) |
2012–2014 | El-Geish | 14 | (10) |
2014 | → Al-Ahli Tripoli (loan) | 8 | (7) |
2014– | Rio Ave | 14 | (1) |
2015– 2016 | → Ponferradina (loan) | 17 | (2) |
2016– 2017 | → Wydad Casablanca (loan) | 23 | (17) |
National team‡ | |||
2011– | Liberia | 10 | (9) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:48, 12 January 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 September 2016 |
William Jebor (born 10 November 1991) is a Liberian footballer who plays for Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca, on loan from Portuguese club Rio Ave FC, as a striker. He is also a member of the Liberia national football team.
On 13 October 2015 Jebor scored a hat-trick in a 3–1 win at Guinea-Bissau in the preliminary stage of the FIFA World Cup qualifier, after scoring another one in the first leg. He scored another hat-trick against Djibouti in the African Cup of Nations Qualifier On March 29, 2016, in a CAF 2017 qualification match in Monrovia, between Djibouti and Liberia. Becoming the only Liberian senior national football team player to score a hat-trick more than once in an international tournament. Liberians call him the "Victorious Boy", "A True Son Of The Soil"."The Striker". He is the most important player of the current generation of Liberia football.
Also the second Liberian to be a Africa Footballer of the year nominee After George Weah who have won the continent most prestigious award three times, 1989, 1994 and 1995. In 1996 Weah was named African Player of the Century. The striker William Jebor as he is known has been nominated twice in the 2016 Confederation of African Football (CAF) awards. after being named in the nominees for the African Footballer of the Year as well as the category of Those based On the continent.
Born in Monrovia, Jebor made his senior debuts with Liberia Petroleum Refining Company Oilers in 2008, aged 17, after previously representing LISCR FC as a youth. In the 2009 summer he moved abroad for the first time in his career, signing for Syrian Premier League side Taliya SC.
In 2010 Jebor switched teams and countries again, joining Egyptian Second Division club Tersana SC. After a short spell at El-Sharqeya lel-Dokhan, he moved to El-Geish SC in the Egyptian Premier League.