Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pascal Ovidy Manhanga | ||
Date of birth | 23 March 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | How Mine | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2010 | Mutare United | ||
2010–2011 | Tsholotsho Pirates | ||
2011–2014 | Triangle United | ||
2014–2015 | Highlanders | ||
2015–2016 | Triangle United | ||
2016– | How Mine | ||
International career‡ | |||
2014– | Zimbabwe | 4 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 June 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 June 2016 |
Pascal Ovidy Manhanga (born 23 March 1991) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for How Mine and the Zimbabwe national team. [1] [2] He is known for creating and scoring goals. [3]
Manhanga started his career in the lower leagues of Zimbabwe, firstly with Mutare United and then with Tsholotsho Pirates, he remained with both sides for a year each before moving to Triangle United. He spent three years with Triangle Utd before he was signed by the 2013 Mbada Diamonds Cup winners Highlanders in June 2014. [4] His stay with the Highlanders was short as he left to rejoin Triangle Utd at the start of 2015. However, a year later he was on the move again as he departed Triangle Utd for the second time to sign for How Mine. [5]
In January 2014, coach Ian Gorowa, invited him to be a part of the Zimbabwe squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship. He helped the team to a fourth-place finish after being defeated by Nigeria by a goal to nil. [6] [7] He made two appearances in the aforementioned competition, overall he has played four times for Zimbabwe and scored one goal. [8] [9]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Zimbabwe | 2014 | 4 | 1 |
2015 | 0 | 0 | |
2016 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 4 | 1 |
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 5 March 2014 | Kamuzu Stadium, Blantyre, Malawi | Malawi | 3–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
Manhanga has criticized the widespread practice of polygamy in Zimbabwe, calling it worse for the people of his country than marijuana, pornography, or console video games. [10]
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