Prestige Mboungou

Vieljeux Prestige Mboungou (born 10 July 2000) is a Congolese international footballer who plays as a forward for Serbian club FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac and the Congo national football team.

Prestige Mboungou
Personal information
Full name Vieljeux Prestige Mboungou
Date of birth (2000-07-10) 10 July 2000
Place of birth Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Metalac G.M.
Number 88
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 CARA Brazzaville
2018 CSMD Diables Noirs
2018–2019 MFK Vyškov
2019 → Charlotte Independence (loan)
2020– Metalac Gornji Milanovac 21 (1)
National team‡
2017– Congo 9 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 November 2020

Club career

Best known as Prestige Mboungou, he was born in the capital Brazzaville, and he started his senior career at CARA Brazzaville in 2016 where he spent 2 seasons. Next, he played one season with CSMD Diables Noirs in 2018, making a total of 3 consecutive seasons in the Congo Premier League.[1] It is in summer 2018, after winning the Coupe du Congo that he moved abroad and signed with Czech lower-league club MFK Vyškov.[1] In spring of 2019 he moves to the United States to play on loan with Charlotte Independence[2] but his stay is short and by summer he was back in Europe. Unsatisfied with the lack of opportunities, the player and MFK Vyškov agree to terminate the contract. As free player, Mboungou passes trials and signs a two-and-a-half years contract with Serbian second-tier club FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac, who is at that moment second in the table with good perspectives of getting promotion to SuperLiga for the next season.[3]

On June 2, 2020, Mbongou renewed his contract to one more year with Metalac.[4]

International career

At youth level, Mboungou was part of the Congolese U-17 squad since very early, having scored the second goal in the 3–0 victory over Namibia played home at August 21, 2016, for the 2017 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations qualifiers. Then, he was part of the Congolese U-20 squad in the 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers game against Senegal, a 2–2 home draw, having scored the first goal at 6 minutes of game.

Being his name, Prestige, correspondent to his performances and with the status the Congolese clubs he represented enjoyed domestically, Mboungou debuted for the Congolese main national team already in 2017 being just 16 at the time. His international debut was in a 2–0 home loss to Senegal in a friendly game played on January 11, that year. He entered as substitute replacing Kessel Tsiba after 58 minutes of game.[5]

After that friendly game, Mboungou was selected to the Congo team that played in the 2018 African Nations Championship in which Congo reached the quarter-finals and in which Mboungou was a regular starter in all games.[1]

International statistics
As of match played 13 March 2019.[6]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Congo 201730
201860
Total90

Honours
Diables Noirs

References
  1. Prestige Mboungou at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. Prestige Mboungou profile at Soccerway
  3. Reprezentativac Konga stigao u Metalac at Sportski žurnal, 26-1-2019 (in Serbian)
  4. Prestiž do juna 2022. u Metalcu at Sportski žurnal, 2-6-2020
  5. "Congo 0-2 Senegal". WorldFootball. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  6. Prestige Mboungou at National-Football-Teams.com
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