Erik Zenga

Erik Zenga
Erik Zenga (2015)
Personnel
birthday	January 18, 1993
place of birth	Kostroma ,  Russia
size	181 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2001	BV Bergisch Neukirchen
2001–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2013	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	40 (1)
2013-2014	→  VfL Osnabrück  (loan)	29 (0)
2014-2015	Prussia Munster	19 (2)
2015–	SV Sandhausen	31 (1)
2016–	SV Sandhausen II	7 (1)
2017-2018	→  Hallescher FC  (loan)	29 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010-2011	Germany U-18	7 (0)
2011	Germany U-19	1 (0)
2013-2014	Germany U-20	9 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 1, 2020

Erik Zenga (born January 18, 1993 in Kostroma , Russia ) is a German football player of Russian origin who is under contract with SV Sandhausen .

Career

Erik Zenga is the son of an Angolan and a Russian . He was persuaded by a classmate from elementary school to join the Leverkusen district club BV Bergisch Neukirchen when he was seven . He joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen's U-8 team in 2001. He went through all youth teams until the pupil of the District Administrator-Lucas-Gymnasium made it into the second team in 2012. From there he was loaned to VfL Osnabrück for the 2013/14 season , for which he was also regularly used. For the 2014/15 season, Zenga moved to SC Preußen Münster .

For the 2015/16 season he moved to SV Sandhausen . Zenga made his league debut for Sandhausen on the 4th matchday of the 2017/18 season when he came on for Eroll Zejnullahu in the 52nd minute in the 1: 2 home game defeat by Fortuna Düsseldorf . In August 2017, Zenga extended the SVS until June 30, 2020 and was then loaned to Halleschen FC for one year .

National team

Zenga completed an international match for the German U-19 national team and games for the U-20s.

Web links

• Erik Zenga in the database of weltfussball.de
• Erik Zenga in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Erik Zenga in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Эрик Зенга - One name, two nationalities . scpreussen-muenster.de, November 11, 2014 (no longer available online.).
2. ↑ Integration at Bayer 04: Catalyst Football Family . In: BayArena Magazin Jugend Spezial 2011/2012, p. 28 (PDF; 8.4 MB), accessed on November 10, 2013
3. ↑ “Young, hungry, ambitious”: VfL borrows Zenga . kicker.de, August 21, 2013, accessed on November 9, 2013.
4. ↑ Arthur Ril: The captain of the German U20 national team comes from Leverkusen . Article on the Preußen Münster website, June 13, 2014.
5. ↑ Second division SV Sandhausen brings Erik Zenga from Preußen Münster . Sport1.de , May 29, 2015.
6. ^ SV Sandshaus: Match report , accessed on August 31, 2017
7. ^ SV Sandhausen: SVS lends Zenga , accessed on August 31, 2017
8. ^ Portrait on the DFB homepage