Casimir Ninga

Rodrigue Casimir Ninga (born 17 May 1993) is a Chadian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Angers and the Chad national team.

Casimir Ninga
Ninga with Montpellier in July 2016
Personal information
Full name Rodrigue Casimir Ninga
Date of birth (1993-05-17) 17 May 1993
Place of birth Mandoul, Chad
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Angers
Number 9
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Renaissance
2013–2015 Mangasport
2015–2018 Montpellier 64 (13)
2018–2019 Caen 34 (6)
2019– Angers 20 (3)
2020–2021 → Sivasspor (loan) 16 (0)
National team‡
2011– Chad 27 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 September 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 November 2019

Club career

Ninga was born in Mandoul, a region located in the southern part of Chad. Ninga was the top goalscorer of the Gabon Championnat National D1 in the 2013–14 season. He also won two consecutive Gabon Championnat National D1 titles with Mangasport in the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.

In the summer of 2015, Ninga signed for Ligue 1 club Montpellier HSC, where he registered 7 goals and 4 assists in 26 Ligue 1 matches in his first season.[1] On 1 October 2016, Ninga scored a hat-trick for Montpellier against Dijon in the 3–3 Ligue 1 away draw.[2]

On 8 August 2019, Ninga joined Ligue 1 club Angers SCO by signing a three-year contract.[3] On 22 September 2019, he came on as a substitute in the 69th minute and scored a hat-trick (and his first Ligue 1 goals for Angers) in the 4–1 Ligue 1 home win over Saint-Étienne to enable Angers to take provisional second place in the Ligue 1 table.[4]

On 27 August 2020 he went to Sivasspor on loan.[5][6]

International goals
Scores and results list Chad's goal tally first.[1]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.31 May 2014Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena, Chad Malawi2–03–12015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2.4 December 2014Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Congo1–01–12014 CEMAC Cup
3.7 December 2014Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Gabon1–01–02014 CEMAC Cup
4.9 December 2014Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea1–01–02014 CEMAC Cup
5.14 December 2014Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea Congo3–13–22014 CEMAC Cup
  • Note: Matches of the 2014 CEMAC Cup were not FIFA official matches, thus the goals from these matches are not counted as official.

Honours

Chad

References
  1. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Casimir Ninga". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  2. "MATCH STATS DIJON FCO - MONTPELLIER HÉRAULT SC". Ligue1.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  3. "Transferts : Casimir Ninga (Caen) rejoint Angers (officiel)". L'Équipe. 9 August 2019.
  4. "Ninga stars as Angers go second". Ligue 1. 22 September 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019.
  5. "CASIMIR NINGA PRÊTÉ À SIVASSPOR" (Press release) (in French). Angers. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  6. "Casimir Ninga Demir Grup Sivasspor'umuzda" (Press release) (in Turkish). Sivasspor. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  7. "Archived copy". www.guineaecuatorialpress.com. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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