Celestina Manga

Celestina Manga
Personal information
Full name Celestina Manga Besecu
Date of birth (2002-09-12) 12 September 2002[1]
Place of birth Cameroon[2]
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 SC Nyanga
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018 Super Leonas
2019 Malabo Kings
2021 SC Nyanga
2023 → Vautour (loan)
2023–2024 Aris Limassol 8 (3)
2024–2025 SC Nyanga
2026– USFA
International career‡
2019 Equatorial Guinea U20
2018– Equatorial Guinea 11[3] (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 June 2019

Celestina Manga Besecu (born 12 September 2002) is a footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Burkinabé Women's Championship club USFA. Born in Cameroon, she plays for the Equatorial Guinea national team.[4]

Early life

Celestina Manga Besecu was born in Cameroon to an Equatoguinean Kombe father from Punta Mbonda and a Cameroonian mother.[5] She always loved playing football in her childhood which lead to her becoming a professional footballer.

Club career

Manga started her career with FC Super Leonas and has played with Malabo Kings FC since 2018.

In February 2023, she moved to Gabon to play for SC Nyanga, being loaned to Vautour shortly after. By late June 2023, she had already scored 22 goals and made 16 assists.[6]

International career

At the age of 19 Manga represented Equatorial Guinea at under-20 level at the 2019 African Games.[7]

Manga competed for Equatorial Guinea at the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, playing in three matches.[1][3] She played for a total of 270 minutes, but her team suffered from bad results: a 0–5 defeat against Zambia on 18 November, a 7–1 defeat against South Africa on 21 November and a 6–0 defeat against Nigeria on 24 November.

She lost against Tunisia 7–3 in total in the second round of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification.

Personal life

Manga Besecu is 160 cm.

References

  1. 1 2 "Player Details: Celestina Manga Besecu". Total Women's Africa Cup of Nations. Confederation of African Football. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Laboratorio De Pau. Charla con Celestina Manga, actualidad de la LIFGE y de los Nzalang on YouTube
  3. 1 2 Celestina Manga at Soccerway. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "National Foot féminin 1/Le CSB plus fort face aux Aigles de Belinga. Atlético Akanda neutralisé par Vautour club". 5 April 2023.
  5. ↑ Laboratorio De Pau. Charla con Celestina Manga, actualidad de la LIFGE y de los Nzalang on YouTube
  6. ↑ "Foot féminin-JO Paris 2024/Celestina Manga Besecu appelée dans son équipe nationale". 21 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "African Games (Football) Athlete Profile : MANGA BESECU Celestina". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.


This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.