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Jocelyn Janneh

Guinean footballer (born 2002)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ115857267 ↗
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Jocelyn Janneh (born 6 December 2002) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Debreceni VSC. Born in Sierra Leone, he plays for the Guinea national team.

Career

Born in Sierra Leone, Janneh moved to Guinea at a young age where he trained at the Académie Atouga Foot. At the age of 16, he moved to Morocco with MC Marrakech where he finished his youth development. On 14 January 2022, Janneh joined the Turkish club Kayserispor, signing a three-year contract. He made his professional debut with Kayserispor as a late substitute in a 2–1 Süper Lig loss to Sivasspor on 21 May 2022.

Bastia

On 23 July 2022, he transferred to the French Ligue 2 club Bastia, signing a three-year contract.

Debrecen

On 1 September 2026, he transferred to the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Debrecen, signing a three-year contract.

International career

Born in Sierra Leone and raised in Guinea, Janneh holds dual Sierra Leonean and Guinean citizenship.

He was called up to the Guinea national team for a set of 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification matches in October 2025.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jocelyn Janneh” is guinean footballer (born 2002). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jocelyn, Janneh and Guinean, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2022, 2026, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-12-06. For this dossier, Jocelyn, Janneh and Guinean is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115857267. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2022, 2026 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jocelyn Janneh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.