Olivier Occéan

Olivier began his football career as a college soccer player. While studying at the university he was gaining game experience in college soccer teams of Longueuil Select Rive-Sud and SCSU Fighting Owls and after graduating joined the professional Vermont Voltage. For this team he scored 19 goals in 30 games and this efficiency interested the higher-rank club of Odd Grenland. In Norway he scored in every second match for the whole season and in 2006 the supereffective forward was recruited by Lillestrøm. Olivier signed a five-year agreement and the transfer fee was about 1million euros. In the club the forward had got 91 appearances in 4 seasons and scored in all 34 goals.

In 2010 Occéan joined Kickers Offenbach on a free transfer. There he kicked 16 in 30 games but the management didn’t consider this result good enough for them and in the fashion the striker was passed to the Second Bundesliga Greuther Fürth and signed a three-year contract with it. On July 15, 2011 he made a fascinating debut in the game with Eintracht Frankfurt, scoring one goal and assisting for the second. Altogether in Greuther Fürth he netted 17 times in 30 games and therefore found himself on the very top of the top scorers’ list, sharing it with two more finishers.

In 2012 Olivier left Fürth for Frankfurt and kept his career going in Eintracht signing a three-year agreement with the team. However, he was loaned to Kaiserslautern for the season 2013/2014.

The Canadian forward also has some international experience, as he got several caps for Canada national football teams, the first squad inclusive.