Dominic Chatto

Dominic Chatto
Personal information
Full name Dominic Chatto Bashir Jamilu
Date of birth (1985-12-07) 7 December 1985
Place of birth Kaduna, Nigeria
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Ordabasy
Number 6
Youth career
Pepsi Football Academy
Highlanders Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
Heartland FC
0000–2004 FC Sheraton
2004–2006 AS Racines
2007–2008 Inter Turku 47 (6)
2009–2013 Häcken 121 (1)
2014–2015 Bodø/Glimt 44 (3)
2016– Ordabasy 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 March 2016.

† Appearances (goals)

Dominic Chatto Bashir Jamilu (born 7 December 1985 in Kaduna, Nigeria) is a football midfielder from Nigeria who plays for FC Ordabasy in the Kazakhstan Premier League. He has played three times in Nigerian youth teams.

Career

Chatto started playing football in the age of six. He developed into one of the most talented players of his region and was always chosen to lead his team as a captain. Chatto learned to play football in Pepsi Football Academy in Nigeria. Before moving to Nigerian Premier League and Heartland FC he trained also in Highlanders Football Academy. In the league he succeeded so well that, in 2005, he was given a tryout in Blackburn Rovers. Eventually, he didn't get a work permit, because he hadn't played in 70 percent of national team matches. Despite this, Blackburn and Mark Hughes wanted to sign a contract and send Chatto to Cercle Brugge for a loan. Chatto refused to go to Brugge, because he would have had to wait three months to get a playing right for the Belgium league. After England, he visited Dynamo Kiev and Brøndby IF, but didn't get a contract offer. He chose to go back to Nigeria and wait for new offers from European clubs.

FC Inter Turku

His professional career in Europe started in 2007, when Finnish Veikkausliiga club FC Inter Turku signed him. In his first season he was voted as the third-best player in the league and was called up to the Nigerian under-23 national team. After the season he signed a new year-long contract with the Turku-based club. In the 2008 season, Chatto was linked with a move to Slovakian FC Senec, Serbian FK Partizan and Red Star Belgrade. The owner of FC Inter refused to sell without a large transfer fee and Chatto stayed in the club.[1] In the last match of the championship season Serie A club Atalanta B.C. was scouting Chatto. Some Russian league clubs were after him and also FC Inter offered him a new contract and was hoping to keep the player. After the season 2008, Chatto was voted for Veikkausliiga players' player of the season.[2]

BK Häcken

In November 2008, Chatto signed a three-year contract with just promoted Swedish club BK Häcken.[3] Häcken had to pay a transfer fee to AS Racine, which still owned his rights. The transfer negotiations started when former Finnish international Janne Saarinen contacted Chatto via Facebook.[4] Chatto scored a goal against IF Elfsborg in a pre-season friendly.

In an interview before the Swedish season, Chatto said that Häcken is hoping for a survival in the premier division, but he hoped that they could reach a top-five place.[5] And when the season was over, Chattos wishes had come true, as Häcken finished in the fifth place in Allsvenskan

Ordabasy

On February 2016, Chatto signed a one-year contract with Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Ordabasy.[6]

Career statistics

As of 12 December 2015[7]
Season Club Division League Cup Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
2009 BK Häcken Allsvenskan 19000190
2010 26100261
2011 25000250
2012 27000270
2013 24000240
2014 Bodø/Glimt Tippeligaen 25210262
2015 19120211
Career Total 1654301684

International

He was called up for Nigerian squad for the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia, but did not play in the team.[8] Chatto was near to playing in the Olympic tournament in Beijing, but would have missed about ten matches with Inter and did not make the trip.

Honors and awards

Club

FC Inter Turku

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Etusivu - Turun Sanomat". Turunsanomat.fi. 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  2. ↑
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  4. ↑ "Dominic Chatto | Football in Finland". Footballinfinland.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Ордабасы подписал Чатто и Юнузовича.". fcordabasy.kz (in Russian). FC Ordabasy. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Dominic Chatto". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2 (Norway).
  8. ↑

External links

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