Assan Ceesay

Assan Ceesay is the kind of footballer I instinctively root for. Born in Banjul, capital of The Gambia, he carries his small nation's hopes onto the pitch as a towering 188cm forward leading the line for the national team. There is real grit in emerging from a country without a deep football pipeline and competing on bigger stages. The data on him is still thin, but that is part of the appeal: his story is being written in real time. I love watching stars from smaller nations seize their moment, and Ceesay feels like a player whose chapters are very much still unfolding.

Name (English)

Assan Ceesay

Name (Japanese)

アッサン・シーセイ

Reading

あっさん・しーせい

Born

March 17, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Banjul, The Gambia

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.