Budge Manzia | |
Birth Date: | 24 September 1994 |
Birth Place: | Kinshasa, Zaire[1] |
Height: | 1.75m[2] |
Position: | Forward |
Currentclub: | SFC Opava |
Clubnumber: | 16 |
Clubs1: | Sharks XI |
Years2: | 2013–2014 |
Clubs2: | Étoile du Sahel |
Caps2: | 3 |
Goals2: | 1 |
Years3: | 2014–2017 |
Clubs3: | Dukla Prague |
Caps3: | 16 |
Goals3: | 2 |
Years4: | 2015 |
Clubs4: | → Baník Sokolov (loan) |
Caps4: | 12 |
Goals4: | 5 |
Years5: | 2017–2018 |
Clubs5: | Sigma Olomouc |
Caps5: | 30 |
Goals5: | 2 |
Years6: | 2019– |
Clubs6: | SFC Opava |
Caps6: | 12 |
Goals6: | 0 |
Nationalyears1: | 2012– |
Nationalteam1: | DR Congo |
Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 6 January 2020 |
Nationalteam-Update: | 31 December 2015 |
Budge Manzia (born 24 September 1994) is a Congolese international football player who currently plays for SFC Opava. He has represented DR Congo internationally.
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.[3] He joined Baník Sokolov of the second league on loan in July 2015.[4] He scored in their first game of the 2015–16 Czech National Football League, a 1–0 win against FK Pardubice.[5] Manzia scored a hattrick in Sokolov's 3–0 win against Varnsdorf in November 2015 before his loan spell expired.[6] 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.[7] In the winter break of the 2016–17 season, Manzia joined second-tier side SK Sigma Olomouc, signing a -year contract.[8]
Manzia represented the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a friendly versus Burkina Faso on 14 November 2012.[9] Following his debut he was named in the Congolese squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations but did not play.[10] He was also named in the Congolese squad for 2013 African U-20 Championship.