Wensley Christoph (born 9 December 1984 in

Paramaribo Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's ...

) is a

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. He is capped for Suriname's national team. Christoph has played for Suriname in qualifying matches for the

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

and 2010

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. In the 2010 qualifying campaign, he was Suriname's top goalscorer with five goals. He currently plays club football for

SV Notch Sporting Vereniging Notch is a Surinamese football club based in Moengo, Marowijne. The club presently competes in the Surinamese Hoofdklasse, the top tier of Surinamese football. Notch earned promotion into the Hoofdklasse after winning the ...

in the SVB Topklasse in Suriname and leads now in the football season 2017 the topscorerslist with 7 goals.

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* 1984 births Living people Association football forwards Sportspeople from Paramaribo Surinamese footballers Suriname international footballers SVB Eerste Divisie players S.V. Excelsior players {{Suriname-footy-bio-stub