Danny Mwanga

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Danny Mwanga
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Personnel
Surname Jean-Marie Daniel Mwanga
birthday 17th July 1991
place of birth KinshasaZaire
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2005-2006 Gédéon FC
2006-2008 Westside metros
2006-2008 Jefferson High School
2008-2009 Oregon State Beavers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010–2012 Philadelphia Union 61 (12)
2012-2013 Portland Timbers 18 0(3)
2013-2014 Colorado Rapids 19 0(0)
2014 →  New York Cosmos  (loan) 8 0(1)
2015 Orlando City 4 0(0)
2016– Tampa Bay rowdies 4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 12, 2016

Jean-Marie Daniel Mwanga (born July 17, 1991 in Kinshasa ) is an American - Congolese football player.

Career

Youth and college

Mwanga comes from Zaire , what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His father was an opponent of the former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and died during the civil war in 1997. His mother left him and his siblings, who grew up with their grandmother, in order to be able to start a new life in the USA.

Mwanga started his career in 2005 in his native DR Congo, in the province of Katanga with Gédéon FC, before moving to the USA in 2006. After moving to the United States, he attended Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon and was part of the Jefferson Democrats Soccer Team. During the holidays he played club soccer for the local club Westside Metros Soccer Club. From 2008 to 2009 he attended Oregon State University and played college soccer for the Oregon State Beavers. In his freshman year he scored four goals in 11 games and was named the best junior player in the Pacific-10 Conference . In his second year he was voted the best player in the conference. He scored 14 goals in 18 games.

professional

In the 2010 MLS SuperDraft, he was drafted as the first round pick by the Philadelphia Union . He made his debut on Matchday 1 of Major League Soccer 2010 . On May 15, 2010 he scored his first goal, securing a draw against FC Dallas . He was nominated for the MLS Rookie of the Year Award at the end of the season .

National team

He was granted US citizenship on June 24, 2013. He then expressed his intention to play for the United States national soccer team .

Individual evidence

  1. Congolese Soccer Player Scores for Oregon College ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.america.gov
  2. TRAINING COMPENSATION (8) - THE MWANGA CASE: FIFA ON THE ROPES
  3. ^ Former Timbers forward Danny Mwanga sworn in as US citizen
  4. JOY IN THE DESERT Oregon has a Regional Champion!
  5. ^ A b Toshio Suzuki: Danny Mwanga, Philadelphia Union ready for MLS debut . In: The Oregonian , March 24, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 
  6. ^ Toshio Suzuki: Danny Mwanga picked No. 1 by Philadelphia Union in MLS SuperDraft . In: The Oregonian , January 14, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 
  7. 2010 MLS SuperDraft
  8. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/gamecast?id=289675&cc=5901&league=USA.1
  9. Rapids' Danny Mwanga caps journey from refugee to proud US citizen . In: denverpost.com . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  10. Keith Hickey: MLS Comment: Danny Mwanga Ready To Add To Immigrant Contributions To US Soccer . In: goal.com , July 11, 2010. 

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