Budge Manzia (born 24 September 1994) is a Congolese international football player who currently plays for

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. He has represented

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internationally.

Career

At club level, Manzia played in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 for Étoile du Sahel before moving to the Czech Republic to join FK Dukla Prague in January 2014. He joined

Baník Sokolov ''Baník'' is a Slovak word meaning "miner". Since the 1950s it has been part of the name of various sports clubs in Czechoslovakia associated mostly with coal mining regions. In Poland, the same practice was conducted with the name ''górnik''. ...

of the second league

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in July 2015. He scored in their first game of the

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, a 1–0 win against

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. Manzia scored a hattrick in Sokolov's 3–0 win against Varnsdorf in November 2015 before his loan spell expired. In April 2016, Manzia scored his first Czech First League goal in a 2–2 draw at

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...

. He scored the second goal of the game in the 11th minute after a cross from

Jakub Mareš Jakub Mareš (born 26 January 1987) is a Czech football forward who last played for FK Teplice in the Czech First League. He played at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, reaching the final with the Czech team. Career Mareš first played in the Czec ...

, having provided the pass to Mareš for the first goal earlier in the game. In the winter break of the 2016–17 season, Manzia joined second-tier side SK Sigma Olomouc, signing a -year contract. Manzia represented the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a friendly versus

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

on 14 November 2012. Following his debut he was named in the Congolese squad for the

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but did not play. He was also named in the Congolese squad for

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Manzia, Budge 1994 births Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Étoile Sportive du Sahel players Living people Czech First League players FK Dukla Prague players FK Baník Sokolov players SK Sigma Olomouc players SFC Opava players Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Sharks XI FC players 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people