Itimi Dickson

Itimi Dickson
Personal information
Full name	Itimi Dickson Edherefe
Date of birth	14 November 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth	Lagos, Nigeria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder / Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001	Jurong
2002–2003	Woodlands Wellington
2004–2005	Young Lions
2006	Woodlands Wellington
2007–2009	Persitara Jakarta Utara
2009	Home United
2010	Geylang United
2011– 2012	Persidafon Dafonsoro
International career‡
2004–2009	Singapore
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of May 8, 2012; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of December 25, 2010

Itimi Dickson Edherefe is a Singapore international former football player.

Club career

Previously, Dickson played for Jurong FC, Woodlands Wellington FC, Young Lions and Persitara Jakarta Utara.

In 2001, Dickson was suspended for three months and fined S$1,000 for punching Home United's Harun Juma'at. He fell out with head coach V. Sundramoorthy after serving out his ban and was transferred to Woodlands Wellington in 2002.^[1]

Dickson returned to S-league to play for Home United after an unsuccessful season with Persitara Jakarta Utara. The final club he played was for Persidafon Dafonsoro.

After his retirement in 2012, Dickson joined the coaching staff at the private league ESPZEN.^[2]

International career

Fast and aggressive in attack, Dickson provides width and decent flair to a Singapore national side midfield that lacks technical capability.

Although he was born in Nigeria, Dickson received Singapore citizenship under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in 2004.^[1] He was on the Singapore squad that won the Tiger Cup regional football championship in 2004.

Dickson was given a 6-month ban from representing Singapore when he was absent from training with the national team in 2007.^[2] He later bounced back from the ban by playing well in league and was subsequently made part of the AFF Championship winning side.

National team career statistics

Goals for Senior National Team

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
	December 15, 2004	Hanoi, Vietnam	Cambodia	3–0	Won	2004 Tiger Cup
	January 15, 2007	Singapore, Singapore	Laos	11–0	Won	2007 ASEAN Football Championship

Honours

Singapore

ASEAN Football Championship: 2004, 2007

References

^ ^a ^b "Iti lands home". FAS. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Five Singapore imports who didn't just come and go". FourFourTwo. 7 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.

Itimi Dickson at National-Football-Teams.com
Itimi Dickson at Soccerway

[sg-1] "Iti lands home". FAS. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.

[fourfourtwo-2] "Five Singapore imports who didn't just come and go". FourFourTwo. 7 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.

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