Michael Olunga Biography
Michael Olunga was born on 26th March 1994. He is a Kenyan professional footballer who currently plays for Guizhou Zhicheng in the China Super League and the Kenya national team as a forward.
Education Background
Undergraduate student at Technical University of Kenya, Bachelors Degree in Engineering
Secondary school student at Upper Hill High School.
Primary school student at Babadogo Primary School.
Michael Olunga Career
In primary school he played a little bit of football and also in high school.He scooped the Nairobi County Schools’ Association MVP award for finishing top scorer at the event and his overall outstanding football skills and technique.
His proffessional career began in 2013 when he played for Tusker FC during the 2013 Kenyan Premier League under 19 tournament. He graduated to Thika’s senior team and was later loaned to Thika United in 2014 where she secured a transfer to Gor Mahia FC (for Ksh200, 000).
Michael Olunga Gor Mahia
He began his career with the Liberty Sports Academy in the Nairobi County League. He scored 32 goals for the side during the 2012 season, helping them finish the season unbeaten and earn promotion to the Nairobi Provincial League., he hit the headline once when he scored seven goals in a single match helping his team to a 8-0 win Initially reported to be attending trials in France, Olunga signed for Premier League side Tusker on a one-year loan deal from Liberty on 19 December 2012.
After finishing the 2013 season with two goals for Tusker, Olunga was loaned to fellow Premier League side Thika United for another year, before joining Gor Mahia before the beginning of the 2015 season. Olunga finished the season as the club’s top scorer in the league with 19 goals to help the side win a record 15th league title without losing a single match, including the second goal in a 2–0 win over Muhoroni Youth on their final league match of the season.
Michael Olunga Djurgården
On 17 February 2016, Olunga joined Swedish side Djurgårdens IF on a four-year contract, after joining the team’s pre-season training camp on trial. Olunga scored both his first and second goal for Djurgården on 8 August 2016 against IFK Göteborg in av 3-1 win., He was also named man of the match[11] and Djurgården coach Mark Dempsey praised him for his match winning heroics. In the next match Olunga scored once again in the 2-2 draw versus IF Elfsborg at the Tele2 Arena. On August 27th Olunga scored the match winning goal against Gefle after a stunning volley in the 86th minute. On the last 12 games of the Allsvenskan Olunga scored 12 goals which earned him a fifth place in the Allsvenskan top scorer table. Michael was nominated for Newcomer of the year in Swedish football by a jury of Allsvenskan coaches and Swedish journalists as well as the coaches of the Swedish national teams. The prize later went to Alexander Isak.
Exciting Articles
On 10 November 2016 Kenyan football site Soka reported that Djurgården had turned down offers on Olunga from La Liga side Betis, Lokeren, Belgium champions Club Brugge and Swedish champions Malmö FF.On 12 January 2017 Turkish reports suggested that Turkish giant Galatasaray was keeping Olunga under a close watch. Olunga was described as a potential replacement of German striker Lukas Podolski.
Michael Olunga Honours
In 2005 he won KPL player of the year.
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