Dennis oliech
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Dennis Oliech (born on 2 February]], 1984 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan professional football striker currently playing for FC Nantes Atlantique in France.
He started playing football for Mathare United club and later was the top scorer for the Harambee Stars - Kenya's national team, scoring in almost each game. He was the player who came in in the second half to score the national team's winning goal in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers for the 2004 finals. He played at the 2004 African Cup of Nations. His first international was in 2002, when Kenya lost to Super Eagles - Nigeria 3-0.
He went professional in 2003 playing for Al-Arabi, Qatar until late 2005.
Oliech signed a 4 year contract with the French Ligue 1 team FC Nantes in 2005 and started playing for them at the start of 2006. FC Nantes were relegated in 2007.
Oliech skiped the the Mandela Cup match organised by world football governing body Fifa to honour the former South African President on his 89th birthday because he was attending trials at at English Coca Cola championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers which is just below the popular Barclaycard English Premier League.
Qatar side Al-Sad is was also interested in signing Oliech, and had offered Ksh284Million for the star
