Eugene Sseppuya

Eugene Sseppuya
Personal information
Full name Andrew Eugene Sseppuya[1]
Date of birth (1983-04-01) 1 April 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Kampala, Uganda
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1990–1998 SC Villa
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2004 Alabama A&M Bulldogs
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2001 SC Villa
2005 Colorado Rapids 1 (0)
2005 Virginia Beach Mariners 8 (2)
2007 Banants 0 (0)
2008 Vojvodina 14 (2)
2009 Čukarički 18 (9)
2009 Mladi Radnik 6 (0)
2010 Sūduva 3 (0)
2010 North Queensland Fury 13 (1)
2011 Petrolul Ploiești 3 (0)
2011–2012 Borac Čačak 14 (0)
2012 Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje 11 (3)
2013 Istiklol Dushanbe 4 (3)
2016 Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje 0 (0)
International career‡
2000 Uganda B 1 (0)
2007–2010 Uganda 7 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 May 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 October 2012

Andrew Eugene Sseppuya[1] (born 1 April 1983) is a Ugandan football striker. Sseppuya is a former international for the Uganda national team.[2]

Biography

Sseppuya played college soccer at Alabama A&M from 2001 to 2004, during which time he played in 59 games, scoring 41 goals and 19 assists, leading the team in scoring from 2001 to 2003. An injury that kept him out for much of the 2004 season prevented him from repeating the feat a fourth season, but despite playing only four games all season, Sepuya was selected 31st in the 2005 MLS Supplemental Draft. He played one game for the Colorado Rapids, before getting his release in June.

Sseppuya has completed a transfer to Armenian soccer team FC Banants for an undisclosed fee.[3] After few league rounds of 2007 season, he was released without making any league appearances.[4] Then he joined Serbian team FK Vojvodina. During winter 2008–09 transfer window, he joined FK Čukarički.[5] In late April 2009, he was statistically the most productive scorer in Serbian Superliga 2008–09 season, having played one match for Vojvodina and 11 for Čukarički while scoring seven goals, all of which translates to a rate of one goal for every 114 minutes on the pitch.[6]

In October 2009, he signed a one-year contract for FK Mladi Radnik.[7] On 16 March 2010, Sseppuya signed a contract with Lithuanian club FK Sūduva.[8] On 1 August 2010, Sseppuya signed a contract with A-League side North Queensland Fury making him the club's 20th player to sign for the upcoming season.[9] Sseppuya scored his first goal for the Fury in their round 3, 2–2 draw with Melbourne Victory.[10] He was released from the Fury after the club folded.[11]

At the end of March 2011, he signed a contract with the Romanian Liga II club Petrolul Ploiești.[12] He was released from the club in the summer, after the club gained promotion into Liga I. In early September 2011 he moved back to Serbia and signed a 2-year contract with FK Borac Čačak. He will be available for the club in the round 5 of the 2011–12 Serbian SuperLiga.[13]

In July 2012, after the relegation of Borac from the SuperLiga, Sseppuya was in trial with Boyacá Chico, although finally he was signed by FK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje in the Montenegrin First League.[14]

Sseppuya scored 3 goals in 4 appearances for FC Istiklol before being released by the club in January 2014.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ a b "131 km/h – najjači šut FK Rad!". jelenfootball.com. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Sseppuya, Ogwang, Kyeyune: Tall strikers who nagged defences". monitor.co.ug.
  3. ^ Sepuya joins Armenia league Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Armenia. Premier league". ffa.am. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  5. ^ Eugene Sseppuya at Srbijafudbal
  6. ^ "SL: Sepuja najproduktivniji napadač, MTS Mondo, 26 April 2009". Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
  7. ^ "Sepuja prešao u Mladi Radnik". B92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  8. ^ „Sūduva“ stiprina saugų ir puolimo grandis Archived 1 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Fury Sign Up African Star". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Nine-man Fury claim point". A-League. 22 August 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  11. ^ "Australian FourFourTwo". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Ugandezul Sepuya a semnat cu Petrolul Ploieşti (Romanian)". Adevarul. 23 March 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  13. ^ Sseppuya presentation[usurped] at FK Borac Čačak official website
  14. ^ Eugene Sseppuya Archived 19 February 2013 at archive.today at FSCG.co.me
  15. ^ Истиклол: итоги выступления в чемпионате Таджикистана-2013. fc-istiklol.tj (in Russian). FC Istiklol. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  16. ^ Истиклол отпустил трех футболистов. fc-istiklol.tj (in Russian). FC Istiklol. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.