| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Orestis Menka | ||
| Date of birth | 27 July 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Lushnjë, Albania | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Vasalund | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2007 | Levadiakos | ||
| 2007–2009 | PAOK | ||
| 2009–2013 | Doxa Drama | ||
| 2011–2012 | → Glyfada (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2014 | Doxa Drama | 8 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Aiginiakos | 2 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Doxa Drama | 0 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Apollon Kalamaria | 13 | (0) |
| 2017–2020 | Doxa Drama | 59 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | Panachaiki | 0 | (0) |
| 2021 | Levadiakos | 5 | (0) |
| 2021 | Akropolis | 14 | (0) |
| 2022– | Vasalund | 48 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013 | Albania U21 | 3 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 November 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2013 | |||
Orestis Menka (born 27 July 1992) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swedish Ettan-Norra club Vasalund. [1]
Menka moved to Levadeia, Greece, at the age of four and started his youth career at age 10, with the city's football-club Levadiakos, where he stayed five years before signing with PAOK together with a fellow Albanian compatriot Ergys Kaçe, where he stayed two years, then moved to Doxa Drama's youth team, was loaned for a year at Glyfada F.C. and then returned to Doxa Drama. [2]
On 6 January 2013, Menka gained entry with the first team of Doxa Drama as he called up for the match against Panachaiki, but he was an unused substitute. [3] He called up in total of 7 times, but all of them was an unused substitute. [4]
He made it his debut on 15 December 2013, by being included in the starting line-up in an away match against Anagennisi Giannitsa F.C. finished in the victory 1–2. [5] He played 2 consecutive games by keeping the clean sheet, on 12 January 2014 against Anagennisi Karditsas [6] and against Tyrnavos 05 on 19 January 2014, [7] with both games finishing in goalless draws. Menka played a half-time match on 29 March 2014 against Vataniakos, match finished in the victory 2–3 where he conceded 1 goal as the 2nd was conceded by his substitute Kostas Davkos. [8]
Since the summer of 2020, he has been playing for Panachaiki.
He played his first match for Albania national under-21 football team on 6 February 2013 against Macedonia U21, an friendly match finished in goalless draw 0-0.[ citation needed ] In the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship he played two matches against Hungary U21 on 7 June 2013 [9] and Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 on 11 June 2013. [10]
| International appearances and goals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Final score | Goal | Result | Competition |
| 2013 | |||||||
| 1 | 6 February | Stadiumi Laçi, Laçi, Albania |  Macedonia | 0–0 | 0 | Draw | Friendly |
| 2 | 7 June | Niko Dovana Stadium, Durrës, Albania |  Hungary | 1–2 | 0 | Loss | UEFA Euro U-21 2015 qualification |
| 3 | 11 June | Bilino Polje, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–4 | 0 | Loss | UEFA Euro U-21 2015 qualification |
| Season | Club | League country | League | League Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| 2012–13 | Doxa Drama | Football League (Greece) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| 2013–14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 8 | 0 | ||
| Total | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | Aiginiakos | Football League (Greece) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
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