Michael Olise

CTL-E-5843 · Person · other · 2001–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07099 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5843.

Michael Olise, born Michael Akpovie Olise on 12 December 2001 in London, England, is a French international winger of Nigerian and French-Algerian parentage who plays for Bayern Munich. Born to a Nigerian father and a French-Algerian mother, he came through the academies of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Reading, debuting for Reading in the Championship before moving to Crystal Palace in 2021, where he became a regular at Selhurst Park. He signed for Bayern Munich on 7 July 2024 and immediately became a linchpin of the side, winning Bundesliga titles in 2025 and 2026 and the club fans' Player of the Season award in both of his first two seasons; Bayern's official profile also credits him with the Bundesliga Player of the Season title for 2025–26. With France he won Olympic silver at Paris 2024, debuted for the senior team in September 2024, and recorded seven assists at the 2026 World Cup, a tournament high.

The record

• Also known as: Michael Akpovie Olise

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Michael Olise entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5843 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 979 (Soccer Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Nigerian-heritage diaspora figure (Nigerian father; France international) — diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — Bayern Munich first-team player in October 2026 fixtures (FC Bayern official profile, current). CONFLICTS CARRIED: his seven assists at the 2026 World Cup are described by FC Bayern's official profile as equalling the single-tournament record, while tournament reporting (Martin Cid Magazine) describes seven as the most by any player at one edition, one ahead of Pelé's six in 1970 (Reuters factbox gives Pelé six assists at Mexico 1970). Both framings are carried; neither is blended. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Bayern totals on the club's official profile at access: 116 matches, 50 goals, 49 assists; Bundesliga champion 2025 and 2026 — FC Bayern, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and Bayern Munich/Crystal Palace press photography of Michael Olise exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5843-michael-olise.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normalized forms — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normal) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• FC Bayern Munich official player profile — Bayern player since July 2024 (signed 7 July 2024 from Crystal Palace); born in London; right winger; Bundesliga titles 2025 and 2026; Olympic silver 2024; fans' Player of the Season in both Bayern seasons; Bundesliga Player of the Season 2025–26; seven assists at World Cup 2026 — https://fcbayern.com/en/teams/first-team/michael-olise (primary source · build store)
• Bundesliga.com (8 July 2024) — Bayern sign Olise from Crystal Palace; born in London to a Nigerian father and French-Algerian mother; academies of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City; senior breakthrough at Reading, then Palace — https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/bayern-munich-sign-michael-olise-from-crystal-palace-france-27946 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Michael Olise" — born Michael Akpovie Olise, 12 December 2001, London (White City), raised in Hayes; senior France debut September 2024; Reading debut 2019; Palace 2021–24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Olise (build store)

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