Salifu Jatta

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Salifu Jatta
Personal information
Full name Salifu Jatta
Date of birth (1995-12-11) December 11, 1995 (age 28)
Place of birth Serekunda, The Gambia
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Manila Digger
Number 10
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2016 Evergreen Valley Hawks (16)
2016–2017 Fort Lewis Skyhawks 34 (4)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2019 Nevada Coyotes
2019 Corpus Christi 14 (7)
2019–2020 Oakland Roots 2 (0)
2020–2021 Stumptown AC 0 (0)
2021–2022 Contra Costa
2023–2024 FC Meshakhte Tkibuli 2 (2)
2024– Manila Digger 9 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5:37, June 19, 2024 (UTC)

Salifu Jatta (born 11 December 1995) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Philippines Football League club Manila Digger. [1] [2]

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Personal life

Jatta was born in Serekunda in The Gambia. He left his country for the United States at age 14 and graduated from South San Francisco High School. [3]

Career

College career

After high school, Jatta attended San Jose State University, [4] first playing college football for the Hawks of Evergreen Valley College. [5] [6] In 2015, he was part of the 2015 All Northern California team. [7]

In 2016, he transferred colleges where he played football for the Skyhawks of Fort Lewis College, playing 34 games across two seasons before graduating. [8] [9]

Club career in the US

Jatta signed his first club contract with the Nevada Coyotes of the United Premier Soccer League, [10] [11] where he stayed for two years. He played for a number of clubs in the lower divisions of the US soccer system, first siging with Corpus Christi for a short stint in 2019 [12] before signing for Oakland Roots a year after. [13] [14] He subsequently plied his trade at Stumptown for the 2020–2021 season [15] and Contra Costa for the 2021–2022 season.

Meshakhte Tkibuli

In 2023, he played for the first time outside the US as he signed with FC Meshakhte Tkibuli in the Liga 3 of Georgia. [16] [17] He would stay with the club until departing in early 2024.

Manila Digger

In early 2024, it was reported that Jatta had signed with Philippines club Manila Digger of the PFL, making his first appearance for the club in their opening game, a 2–1 win over Philippine Army. He scored his first goal in a 3–1 win over Loyola, [18] also scoring a brace against United City and a header against Kaya–Iloilo. [19] [20] [21]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Manila Digger FC - Team Roster". pfl.org.ph. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Player Profile: Salifu Jatta". Protagonist Soccer. March 23, 2019. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Men's Soccer - Salifu Jatta". Fort Lewis Skyhawks . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  5. ↑ Morotti, Lorenzo (September 2, 2015). "Fierce contest ends in stalemate". The Advocate . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  6. ↑ Curley, Joe (December 5, 2015). "Oxnard reaches rarefied air with state final appearance". Ventura County Star . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  7. ↑ "2015 CCCSCA All-Region Teams" (PDF). CCCAA Sports. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  8. ↑ "2016 Men's Soccer Roster". Fort Lewis Skyhawks . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  9. ↑ Kortz, Brian (September 12, 2018). "Men's Soccer Starts RMAC Play at Home Against #19 Colorado Mesa, Then Play at Adams State". Fort Lewis Skyhawks . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Harmon Sports Group - Forwards". Harmon Sports Group. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Western Nevada FC signs Salifu Jatta". Western Nevada FC. January 24, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Corpus Christi FC Roster". USL League Two . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Roster - Salifu Jatta". National Independent Soccer Association . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Oakland Roots SC Roster". Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  15. ↑ "Stumptown Roster - Salifu Jatta". Stumptown AC . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  16. ↑ "ოფიციალურად ს.კ "მეშახტეს" ღირსებას ამ სეზონში, ახალწვეული სალიფუ ჯატა დაიცავს, რომელიც, წინა სეზონში "Stump Town AC" მაისურს ირგებდა!". FC Meshakhte on Facebook. July 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  17. ↑ "ორბი 1-1 მეშახტე". Georgian Cup . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  18. ↑ Suing, Ivan (May 5, 2024). "Manila Digger licks Loyola FC". Daily Tribune . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  19. ↑ "Kaya FC-Iloilo 3-1 Manila Digger FC: Kaya earns hard earned win over Manila Digger". pfl.org.ph. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  20. ↑ "Kaya FC stay top in PFL 2024". ASEAN Football Federation . June 3, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  21. ↑ "Kaya FC-Iloilo 3-1 Manila Digger FC". Kaya FC. June 1, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
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