Junior Mapuku

Junior Mapuku
Personal information
Full name Junior M'Pia Mapuku
Date of birth (1990-01-07) 7 January 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Kinshasa, Zaire
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Troyes B 14 (4)
2011 Sainte-Geneviève 5 (2)
2012–2013 Panachaiki 31 (5)
2013–2014 Compiègne 8 (0)
2014–2015 Beroe Stara Zagora 43 (16)
2015–2016 Wadi Degla 22 (3)
2016 Bandırmaspor 2 (0)
2016–2017 Beroe Stara Zagora 25 (12)
2017–2018 Levski Sofia 19 (6)
2018–2019 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 0 (0)
2019 Dunărea Călărași 4 (0)
2019–2020 Al-Shorta 4 (0)
2020 Al-Shoulla 9 (1)
2021 Ratchaburi Mitr Phol 0 (0)
2021–2022 Slavia Sofia 5 (0)
2022–2023 Sheikh Russel KC 10 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 February 2023

Junior M'Pia Mapuku (born 7 January 1990) is a Congolese professional footballer who most recently played as a forward for Bangladesh Premier League club Sheikh Russel KC.[1][2]

Career

On 1 September 2016, Mapuku signed a contract with Turkish club Bandırmaspor, but ended up playing only two league games.[3]

On 11 October 2016, he returned to Beroe Stara Zagora.[4]

Levski Sofia

On 22 May 2017, Mapuku signed a two-year contract with Levski Sofia, joining the team from the 2017–18 season.[5] He soon claimed himself "The Black Power".[6] On his debut for the club, Mapuku scored two goals in an eventual 3–1 win against Sutjeska in the Europa League 1st qualifying round.[7] In the same match he scored the quickest goal ever for Levski in European tournaments, finding the net after just 13 seconds. On 18 August 2017, Mapuku scored his debut goals in the league against Pirin Blagoevgrad, scoring a hattrick for the 3:0 win.[8] It was the quickest hattrick scored by a foreigner in the club history after just 18 minutes (between the 74th and 92nd minute).[9]

Shijiazhuang Ever Bright

After being deemed surplus to the requirements by Levski Sofia manager Delio Rossi, Mapuku signed a one-and-a-half year contract with Chinese club Shijiazhuang Ever Bright on 30 January 2018.[10]

Al Shorta

In 2019 Mapuku joined Iraqi club Al-Shorta.[11]

Slavia Sofia

In October 2021, Mapuku returned to Bulgaria, agreeing terms with Slavia Sofia for two seasons.[12] However, he made only a few appearances for the team without managing to score and was released in February 2022 after falling out of favor with the manager Zlatomir Zagorčić.[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of 3 November 2018


Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Troyes B 2010–11 National 3 14 4 – – 14 4
Sainte-Geneviève 2011–12 National 3 5 2 – – 5 2
Panachaiki 2011–12 Beta Ethniki 20 5 0 0 – 20 5
2012–13 11 0 0 0 – 11 0
Total 31 5 0 0 0 0 31 5
Compiègne 2013–14 National 3 8 0 – – 8 0
Beroe Stara Zagora 2013–14 A Group 12 8 0 0 0 0 12 8
2014–15 26 7 2 1 – 28 8
2015–16 5 1 0 0 4 0 9 1
Total 43 16 2 1 4 0 49 17
Wadi Degla 2015–16 Egyptian Premier League 22 3 – – 22 3
Bandırmaspor 2016–17 1. Lig 2 0 – – 2 0
Beroe Stara Zagora 2016–17 Bulgarian First League 25 12 0 0 – 25 12
Levski Sofia 2017–18 Bulgarian First League 19 6 3 1 4 2 26 9
Shijiazhuang 2018 China League One 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
Career total 169 48 5 2 8 2 183 52

Honours

Al-Shorta

References

  1. ^ "Junior Mapuku Facts". footballdatabase.eu.
  2. ^ O să fie cel mai tatuat jucător din Liga 1 » Vine "The Black Power", atacantul care vrea să facă spectacol în România!. gsp.ro (in Romanian)
  3. ^ "Bandırmaspor'da Mapuku'yla yollar ayrıldı" (in Turkish). haberturk.com. 1 September 2016.
  4. ^ ""Берое" привлече Мапуку" (in Bulgarian). beroe.bg. 11 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Жуниор Мапуку подписа за две години с Левски" (in Bulgarian). levski.bg. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  6. ^ Новият нападател на Левски - Черна сила или стойкаджия от Инстаграм
  7. ^ "Levski 3-1 Sutjeska". uefa.com. 29 June 2017.
  8. ^ Черната сила изригна и счупи нулите на Левски
  9. ^ Мапуку с най-бързия чуждестранен хеттрик в историята на Левски
  10. ^ Tobo, Michel (30 January 2018). "Transfert: Junior Mapuku au Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Fc" (in French). foot.cd. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  11. ^ Ngandu, Josue (11 April 2020). "Foot-RDC: Junior M'pia Mapuku, le seul footballeur congolais evoluant en irak" (in French). voila.cd. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Oфициално: Жуниор Мапуку подписа договор със Славия" (in Bulgarian). sportal.bg. 11 October 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Славия освободи Жуниор Мапуко и взе нов нападател" (in Bulgarian). bnr.bg. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  14. ^ 2019 Iraqi Super Cup, AZL Sport

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