Itimi Dickson Edherefe is a

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former

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player.

Club career

Previously, Dickson played for

Jurong FC Jurong Football Club was a professional football club, based in the Jurong area of Singapore. The club played in S.League, the top division of football in Singapore from 1997 to 2003. The team's best league finishes in this period were fifth pl ...

Woodlands Wellington FC Woodlands Wellington Football Club is an inactive professional football club which played in the S.League, the top division of football in Singapore. They are based in Woodlands at the 4,300 seater Woodlands Stadium, where they have played since ...

, Young Lions and

Persitara Jakarta Utara Persitara Jakarta Utara or just Persitara is an Indonesian football club based in North Jakarta (Utara means North). Currently, Persitara plays in the Liga 3. The club's home base are the Tugu Stadium. History The history of the establishmen ...

. In 2001, Dickson was suspended for three months and fined S$1,000 for punching

Home United Lion City Sailors Football Club, commonly referred to as The Sailors or LCS, is a Singaporean professional football club competing in the Singapore Premier League, the top tier of the Singapore football league system. Since the 2021 season, the ...

's Harun Juma'at. He fell out with head coach

V. Sundramoorthy Varadaraju Sundramoorthy ( ta, வரதராஜு சுந்தரமூர்த்தி; born 6 October 1965) is a former Singaporean international footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, is widely touted as one of the country's mo ...

after serving out his ban and was transferred to

Woodlands Wellington Woodlands Wellington Football Club is an inactive professional association football, football club which played in the S.League, the top division of football in Singapore. They are based in Woodlands, Singapore, Woodlands at the 4,300 seater Woo ...

in 2002. Dickson returned to

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to play for

after an unsuccessful season with

. The final club he played was for

Persidafon Dafonsoro Persidafon Dafonsoro or Persidafon Jayapura or Persidafon is an Indonesian football club based in Jayapura, Papua. The club was founded in 1970. The traditional team home kit is black and white striped shirt, resembling the Udinese Calcio shir ...

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

International career

Fast and aggressive in attack, Dickson provides width and decent flair to a

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national side

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that lacks technical capability. Although he was born in

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, Dickson received Singapore citizenship under the

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in 2004. He was on the Singapore squad that won the

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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. He later bounced back from the ban by playing well in league and was subsequently made part of the

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winning side.

National team career statistics

Goals for Senior National Team

Honours

International

;Singapore *

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: 2004, 2007

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, Itimi 1983 births Living people Nigerian footballers Singaporean footballers Singapore men's international footballers Geylang International FC players Woodlands Wellington FC players Lion City Sailors FC players Singapore Premier League players Nigerian emigrants to Singapore Naturalised citizens of Singapore Singaporean expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Indonesia Singaporean expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia Persidafon Dafonsoro players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Jurong FC players Young Lions FC players Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Singapore