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Omega Roberts Personal information Full name Omega Alamadine Roberts Date of birth December 12, 1989 Place of birth Liberia Playing position Defender Club information Current club Sloboda Sevojno Number 44 Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2005-2006 Gedi & Sons 2007 Séwé Sports 2008-2009 Tiko United 2009 Diables Noirs 2009-2011 Cercle Olympique 2011- Sloboda Sevojno 2 (0) National team‡ 2006- Liberia 1 (0) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 October 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 October 2011Omega Alamadine Roberts (born 12 December 1989) is an Liberian football defender playing with FK Sloboda Point Sevojno in the Serbian SuperLiga.
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Career
During his early career he played with Gedi & Sons Football Club, a youthfull club he helped to reach the promotion into the 2006 Liberian Premier League. His good displays along with the national team call, made him earn a move to Ivory Coast to play with Séwé Sports de San Pedro with whom he played in the 2007 CAF Champions League.[1] After that season he moved to Cameroon in 2009 where he played with Tiko United being one of the most important players for the club in their historical archivement of winning the 2009 Cameroon Première Division.[2] After that impressive season he played with Diables Noirs in the Republic of Congo in 2009 where, along with one national title, he also won the title of the best foreign player of the league.[3][4] At end of 2009 he moved to Malian Cercle Olympique de Bamako where he played two seasons until 2011. During this period in Mali, he was nicknames as the "Liberian Rio Ferdinand", due to his playing intelligence, technique, composure and physical structure.[5] While playing with COB along his national team mate Melvin Kicmett, he won the Top Four Trphy in 2009 and the Malien Cup in 2011, along with another top continental competition presence by playing in the 2010 CAF Confederation Cup.
In early August 2011 he arrived to Serbia to be on trial with FK Sloboda Point Sevojno[6] ending up signing a definitive contract with the club on August 24.[7] this way archiving his long time desire to archive a move to Europe.[8] His debut in official matches was on September 21, 2011, in a 2011–12 Serbian Cup match against FK Teleoptik,[9] and his league debut was 3 days later, on September 24, as a starter in a match of the round 6 against Javor.[10]
He plays as a marking central defender, and is occasionally referenced as Robert Omega in some sources.
National team
He is also a member of the Liberia national football team. He made his international debut for his country in 2006 in a 3-2 win against Rwanda for the qualifiers of the 2008 Nations Cup.[11] He also played on the senior level in the 2008 Nations Cup qualifiers when a deplete Lone Star squad lost away to Equatorial Guinea 2-1.
Honours
Club:
- Tiko United
- Cameroon Première Division: 2008-09
- Diables Noirs
- Congo Premier League: 2009
- Olympique Bamako
- Malien Cup: 2011
Individual:
- Best foreign player of the Congo Premier League: 2009
References
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
- ^ Three players invited to Scotland at liberiansoccer.com (Diables Noirs names differently)
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
- ^ Pobeda Slobode het trik Kasalice at Sportski žurnal
- ^ Omega potpisao za Slobodu PS at Sportski žurnal
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
- ^ Match report at Transfermarkt
- ^ Match report at Transfermarkt
- ^ Liberian international defender Omega Roberts shine in Mali at africansoccerunion.com
External links
- Omega Roberts at National-Football-Teams.com
- Robert Omega at Playerhistory
- Alamadine Omega at Srbijafudbal
- Omega Roberts at Zerozero
- Omega Roberts at Transfermarkt
Categories:- 1983 births
- Living people
- Liberian footballers
- Liberia international footballers
- Liberian expatriate footballers
- Association football defenders
- Séwé Sports players
- Expatriate footballers in Côte d'Ivoire
- Liberian expatriates in Côte d'Ivoire
- Expatriate footballers in the Republic of the Congo
- Tiko United players
- Expatriate footballers in Cameroon
- Cercle Olympique Bamako players
- Expatriate footballers in Mali
- FK Sloboda Užice players
- Serbian SuperLiga players
- Expatriate footballers in Serbia
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