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Solomon Yambassu

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Solomon Yambassu
Personal information
Full name Solomon Yambassu
Date of birth (1983-08-16) August 16, 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Koidu Town, Sierra Leone
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
East End Lions
Number 01
Youth career
2000–2002 Congress Boys Secondary School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 Wellington People F.C.
2005–2006 Stade d'Abidjan
2006–present East End Lions
International career
2001–2002 Sierra Leone
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Solomon Yambassu (born August 16, 1983 in Koidu Town, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean footballer, who plays for East End Lions in Sierra Leone National Premier League.

Early life

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Yambassu was born Koidu Town, Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone to parents from the Kono ethnic group. He was raised in Wellington, a poor Neighbourhood in the east of Freetown. He attended the Wesleyan primary school in Wellington and the Congress Boys secondary school in Thunder Hill in Freetown.

Career

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Yambassu played for several youth clubs throughout the east end of Freetown before he was finally signed by his hometown club the Wellington People F.C. of the Sierra Leone National Premier League.

International career

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He was a member of the Sierra Leone national team and is commonly known in Sierra Leone by his nickname Politics.[1]

References

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