Sunday Ramadhan Manara (born 23 November 1952) is a Tanzanian former professional
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
winger.
Career
Nicknamed 'Computer', Manara signed for Dutch side
Heracles Almelo
Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to t ...
in 1977, becoming the first Tanzanian to play in Europe. In 1979, he signed for
New York Eagles
The New York Eagles were a professional soccer franchise that played in the American Soccer League (1933-1983), American Soccer League from 1978 to 1981, with a one-year hiatus in 1980. The franchise played its first season in Mount Vernon, New Yo ...
in the United States. Before the second half of 1979–90, he signed for Austrian club
FC St. Veit. After that, Manara signed for
Al Nasr in the United Arab Emirates.
References
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Living people
1952 births
Tanzanian men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Tanzania men's international footballers
Tanzanian Premier League players
Eerste Divisie players
American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
UAE Pro League players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Young Africans S.C. players
Heracles Almelo players
New York Eagles players
FC St. Veit players
Al-Nasr SC (Dubai) players
Tanzanian expatriate men's footballers
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Place of birth missing (living people)
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