Casimir Ninga
Rodrigue Casimir Ninga (born 17 May 1993) is a Chadian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Turkish club Sivasspor on loan from Angers SCO, and the Chad national team.
![]() Ninga with Montpellier in July 2016 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rodrigue Casimir Ninga | ||
Date of birth | 17 May 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Mandoul, Chad | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team |
Sivasspor (on loan from Angers) | ||
Number | 29 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2013 | Renaissance | ||
2013–2015 | Mangasport | ||
2015–2018 | Montpellier | 64 | (13) |
2018–2019 | Caen | 34 | (6) |
2019– | Angers | 17 | (3) |
2020– | → Sivasspor (loan) | 8 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2011– | Chad | 16 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 January 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 November 2019 |
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]
International goals
- Scores and results list Chad's goal tally first.[1]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 31 May 2014 | Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena, Chad | ![]() | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2. | 4 December 2014 | Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2014 CEMAC Cup |
3. | 7 December 2014 | Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2014 CEMAC Cup |
4. | 9 December 2014 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2014 CEMAC Cup |
5. | 14 December 2014 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | ![]() | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2014 CEMAC Cup |
- Note: Matches against
Congo (4 December 2014),
Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea and
Congo (14 December 2014) were not the FIFA official matches, thus the goals from these matches are also not counted as official.
References
- Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Casimir Ninga". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- "MATCH STATS DIJON FCO - MONTPELLIER HÉRAULT SC". Ligue1.com.
- "Transferts : Casimir Ninga (Caen) rejoint Angers (officiel)". L'Équipe. 9 August 2019.
- "Ninga stars as Angers go second". Ligue 1. 22 September 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019.
- "CASIMIR NINGA PRÊTÉ À SIVASSPOR" (Press release) (in French). Angers. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- "Casimir Ninga Demir Grup Sivasspor'umuzda" (Press release) (in Turkish). Sivasspor. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- https://www.guineaecuatorialpress.com/noticia.php?id=6027