David Manga

David Manga (born 3 February 1989) is a Central African footballer who plays for the Central African Republic national team.

David Manga
Manga training with 1860 Munich in 2011
Personal information
Full name David Manga Lembe
Date of birth (1989-02-03) 3 February 1989
Place of birth Paris, France
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Paris Saint-Germain
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 SC Eisenstadt 3 (0)
2008–2011 1860 Munich II 74 (14)
2011 1860 Munich 0 (0)
2011–2013 Partizan 9 (1)
2012–2013 → Hapoel Ramat Gan (loan) 31 (10)
2013–2016 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 55 (18)
2016 Târgu Mureș 0 (0)
2016 Beroe Stara Zagora 10 (2)
2017 Hapoel Ashkelon 13 (2)
2017–2018 Zira 13 (0)
2018 Hapoel Ashkelon 13 (1)
2018–2019 Levadiakos 6 (0)
2019–2020 FC Franconville 0 (0)
2020 Besançon 0 (0)
AS Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône
2022 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn 0 (0)
International career‡
2010– Central African Republic [1] 14 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 November 2017

Club career

Manga began playing in the Paris Saint-Germain youth academy.[2] In 2007, he played with SC Eisenstandt in Austrian Regional League East.

In 2008, he signed a contract with TSV 1860 Munich and played three seasons for their second team in the German Regionalliga Süd.[3] After 2010 he was a non-used substitute on several occasions at 1860 Munich main team, however he failed to make an appearance.

On 15 August 2011, after passing trial period and finishing medical exams, he signed with Serbian SuperLiga champions FK Partizan.[4] He made his debut on 21 September 2011, in a 2011–12 Serbian Cup match against FK Novi Pazar, as a substitute of Saša Ilić in the 73rd minute. His league debut only happened on 22 October 2011, in the round 9 match against Javor with Manga entering in the 87th minute of the match.[5] On 21 April 2012, he scored his first league goal in a shot after a long run in the 93rd minute of the 25th round match against Smederevo. He was a substitute at that match, when Avram Grant brought him into the game in 81st minute, a move which ended up being decisive as Manga was involved in the action of the first goal and scored the second in the 2–0 victory of his side.[6]

In summer 2012 he joined Israeli Premier League side Hapoel Ramat Gan on a loan deal.[7]

On 9 June 2017, Manga signed a two-year contract with Azerbaijan Premier League side Zira FK,[8] but had his contract cancelled by mutual consent on 15 December 2017.[9]

After returning to France and spending the 2019–20 season with French lower league side FC Franconville,[10] Manga joined Championnat National 3 club Racing Besançon in June 2020.[11]

Manga moved to fifth-tier Oberliga Westfalen side 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn from AS Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône in February 2022.[12]

International career

His debut for the Central African Republic national team was on 10 October 2010 in a match against Algeria for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification.

Personal life

Born in Paris, France,[13] David Manga's father was born in the Central African Republic and his mother is from Cameroon.

Career statistics
As of 18 June 2015[14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1860 Munich II2008–09Regionalliga Süd172–––172
2009–10Regionalliga Süd335–––335
2010–11Regionalliga Süd247–––247
FK Partizan2011–12Serbian SuperLiga9120–00111
Hapoel Ramat Gan2012–13Israeli Premier League30101154003615
Ironi Kiryat Shmona2013–14Israeli Premier League29110053–3414
2014–15Israeli Premier League2673031–328
Career total 1704311540018452

Honours

Partizan

Hapoel Ramat Gan

Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona

References
  1. Doesn't include these matches:
    5 June 2011 Central African Republic – Tanzania 2:1 and 7 September 2011 Equatorial Guinea – Central African Republic 3:0
  2. David Manga profile Archived 16 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Partizan official website
  3. David Manga at Fussballdaten
  4. David Manga nova akvizicija Partizana Archived 15 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Partizan official website
  5. Valjak protutnjao Ivanjicom at Sportski žurnal (in Serbian)
  6. Manga progurao Valjak kroz smederevsku tvrđavu at Sportski žurnal, 21 April 2012 (in Serbian)
  7. Manga u Izraelu at Sportski žurnal, 21 August 2012 (in Serbian)
  8. "Zirə David Manqa ilə müqavilə imzaladı". fczire.az (in Azerbaijani). Zira FK. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  9. "Zirə David Manqa ilə yollarını ayırdı". fczire.az (in Azerbaijani). Zira FK. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  10. Bouchacourt, Jérome (23 June 2020). "National 3. Les grandes manœuvres au Racing Besançon". Foot Amateur (in French). Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  11. "National 3. L'expérimenté centrafricain David Manga rejoint le Racing Besançon". L'est Républicain (in French). 15 June 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  12. "1. FC Kaan-Marienborn holt Ex-Nationalspieler". kicker (in German). 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  13. Profile and interview at ama-lion.com
  14. "ONE: דוד מנגה" (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  15. David Manga at National-Football-Teams.com
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