Boaz Solossa

Boaz Solossa
Personal information
Full name	Boaz Theofilius Erwin Solossa
Date of birth	16 March 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Sorong, Indonesia
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Forward, Winger
Team information
Current team	Persipura Jayapura
Number	86
Youth career
2002–2004	PON Papua
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–2015	Persipura Jayapura
2015–2016	Pusamania Borneo
2016	Carsae
2016–	Persipura Jayapura
International career‡
2003	Indonesia U-17
2004	Indonesia U-19
2007–2009	Indonesia U-23
2004–	Indonesia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 April 2016 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 December 2016

Boaz Solossa^[1] (born 16 March 1986) is an Indonesian professional footballer that currently plays for Persipura Jayapura in the Liga Super Indonesia. He is known by his high leveled dribbling technique and his crossing accuracy or short-passing with his left-foot.

In 2011, Boaz got an offer to play at Dutch club VVV-Venlo, but because of family reasons he chose to keep playing in Persipura Jayapura.^[2]

Personal life

Boaz was born in the Solossa family, a well-known family in the province of West Papua. His uncle, Jaap Solossa, was the governor of Papua before he died in 2005. Boaz was born in a footballing family as well, being the youngest of five children. Almost all of them were professionals, including his brother Ortizan and Nehemia. Boaz obtained a Bachelor of Economics at Cenderawasih University in 2013. He also works as Civil servant.

Club career

East Timor

In 2016 Boaz left Persipura for the first time in his career to play for Carsae FC in East Timor, joining fellow Indonesians Imanuel Wanggai and Oktovianus Maniani.^[3] However, in April 2016 having only made four appearances Boaz along with Wanggai left the club by mutal consent to rejoin Persipura.^[4]

International career

Boaz' international debut was against Turkmenistan in 2004 for the 2006 World Cup qualification where Indonesia won 3–1 and Boaz made two assists for his team mate Ilham Jaya Kesuma. Boaz was considered to be a bright prospect in Indonesian football after performing brilliantly in the 2004 Tiger Cup, where Indonesia was defeated by Singapore in a home and away match, which resulted in an aggregate score of 5–2 to Singapore. In the group phase, Boaz managed to score 4 goals and along with Ilham Jayakesuma, who scored 7 goals, both led the top scorers chart.

He got injured after a tough tackle in a friendly match against Hong Kong,^[5] this made him absent from Asian Cup 2007 and disappear from football for many months.

Career statistics

Club

As of 29 April 2016

Club performance			League		National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2005	Persipura Jayapura	Liga Indonesia	16	7		2	-		-		16	9
2006			12	10	2	3	-		-		14	13
2007–08			19	13	4	5	-		-		23	18
2008–09		Indonesia Super League	31	28	7	7	-		-		38	35
2009–10			29	16	9	8	-		5	0	43	24
2010–11			27	21	-		-		8	5	35	26
2011–12			13	7	-		-		-		13	7
2013			32	25	-		-		-		32	25
2014			20	10	-		-		10	6	30	16
2015			1	1	-		-		-		1	1
Total			200	138	22	25	-		23	11	245	174
2016	Carsae	Liga Futebol Amadora	4	1	-		-		-		4	1
Total			4	1	-		-		-		4	1
2016	Persipura Jayapura	Indonesia Soccer Championship	1	0	-		-		-		1	0
Total			1	0	-		-		-		1	0
Career total			205	139	22	25	-		23	11	250	175