Budge Manzia
Manzia 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-09-24) 24 September 1994[1]
Place of birth Kinshasa, Zaire[2]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
SFC Opava
Number 16
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sharks XI
2013–2014 Étoile du Sahel 3 (1)
2014–2017 Dukla Prague 16 (2)
2015Baník Sokolov (loan) 12 (5)
2017–2018 Sigma Olomouc 30 (2)
2019– SFC Opava 12 (0)
International career
2012– DR Congo 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 January 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 December 2015

Budge Manzia (born 24 September 1994)[1] is a Congolese international football player who currently plays for SFC Opava. He has represented DR Congo internationally.

Career

At club level, Manzia played in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 for Étoile du Sahel before moving to the Czech Republic to join FK Dukla Prague in January 2014.[4] He joined Baník Sokolov of the second league on loan in July 2015.[5] He scored in their first game of the 2015–16 Czech National Football League, a 1–0 win against FK Pardubice.[6] Manzia scored a hattrick in Sokolov's 3–0 win against Varnsdorf in November 2015 before his loan spell expired.[7] In April 2016, Manzia scored his first Czech First League goal in a 2–2 draw at Mladá Boleslav. He scored the second goal of the game in the 11th minute after a cross from Jakub Mareš, having provided the pass to Mareš for the first goal earlier in the game.[8] In the winter break of the 2016–17 season, Manzia joined second-tier side SK Sigma Olomouc, signing a 2+12-year contract.[9]

Manzia represented the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a friendly versus Burkina Faso on 14 November 2012.[10] Following his debut he was named in the Congolese squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations but did not play.[11] He was also named in the Congolese squad for 2013 African U-20 Championship.

References

  1. 1 2 Budge ManziaFIFA competition record (archived)
  2. Profile on NFT, national-football-teams.com
  3. Profile on Footballdatabase, footballdatabase
  4. "První zimní přestup do Dukly. Získala mladého útočníka Manziu z Konga". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 11 January 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  5. "Bidje Manzia zamířil na půlroční hostování do Baníku Sokolov". FK Dukla Praha (in Czech). 23 July 2015. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.
  6. "Baník Sokolov i v deseti bral skalp Pardubic". Deník (in Czech). 3 August 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  7. "Sokolov srazil Varnsdorf a zůstal neporažen. Vyhrál i Hradec". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 22 November 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  8. "M. Boleslav - Dukla 2:2, domácí doháněli brzkou dvoubrankovou ztrátu". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 9 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  9. "Posila Manzia: Olomouc je moc hezká, v Sigmě se cítím šťastný". Deník (in Czech). 2 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  10. "Défaite des léopards 1-0 face au Burkina Faso !" (in French). leopadsfoot.com. 14 November 2012. Archived from the original on 19 March 2013.
  11. "DR Congo publish Afcon 2013 squad". Goal.com. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
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