page_title: Elie Charbel Lelo Sejean
section_title: 2017
hierarchical_section_title: Elie Charbel Lelo Sejean / Career / 2017
caption_attribution_description: English: Lelo Sejean Australian Paraguayan Athlete John Landy Athletics Field 2 2017 Cropped
context_page_description: Elie Charbel Lelo Sejean commonly known as Lelo Sejean is an Australian professional footballer, track athlete, model, actor and sports mediator, who plays as a midfielder for Tacuary in the Paraguay División Intermedia, the country's second-tier.
  Sejean competes in the specialities of javelin throw and long jump for Club Sol de América and earned several national representative honours in the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo in 2015, 2016 and 2019, having being trained by South American record holder Edgar Baumann in javelin throw, and competing often with Giovanni Díaz.
  A former apprentice at the Argentine Barracas Central after first trialling at Boca Juniors and Arsenal de Sarandí, he is most notable for being the third of his nationality to play over-age football in South America after John Crawley and Victor Cristaldo, and for climbing up from the Paraguay fourth-tier, to the third-tier and to the second-tier league. Whilst in the Paraguay fourth-tier in 2013, he was coached by former Arsenal and Dundee striker Fabian Caballero.
context_section_description: In 2017, Sejean continued training with Edgar Baumann and continued representing Alto Paraná in athletics. Whilst training with Baumann, Sejean's weight dropped from 79kg down to 74 kg.
  Sejean joined Ciudad del Este and Paraguay third-tier club Sol del Este, a club who also played in their regional state league, the Liga Paranaense. At Sol del Este, he was coached by former footballer Víctor Pinto and was also his assistant coach for the club's youth set-up. Sejean would spend a lot of time with Pinto and would train with him in his backyard.
  In June 2017, Sejean joined Atlántida Asunción.
  He later returned to Australia to compete in the 2017/18 Athletics Victoria season.
caption: Lelo Sejean at the John Landy Athletics Field stadium in 2017
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