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Place of birth
  
Nigeria

2004–2005
  
Mutual

Weight
  
70 kg

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.78 m


Number
  
77

Role
  
Footballer

Playing position
  
Centre-back

Name
  
Festus Baise

Date joined
  
2015

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Date of birth
  
(1980-04-11) 11 April 1980 (age 35)

Current team
  
Hong Kong national football team (Defender)

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Festus Baise (Chinese: 法圖斯; born 11 April 1980) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who plays for Chinese Super League club Guizhou Zhicheng as a centre-back.

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2011–12 season

On 16 December 2011, Baise scored an own goal, described as a reverse scorpion kick, past his goalkeeper Tse Tak Him in a 3–2 win over Sun Hei SC in the Hong Kong first division. The video was featured on the website of the British newspaper The Sun and was viewed over five million times on Internet site YouTube. It was selected as the 5th best own goal of all time by the Daily Telegraph's Steve Wilson.

On 21 March 2012, Baise struck a last-minute winner as Citizen edged out Myanmar's Yangon United 2–1 at Mongkok Stadium to record a first win of the 2012 AFC Cup campaign in Group G.

International career

Baise was born in Nigeria, and is of Ghanaian descent. In December 2012, Baise confirmed that he had applied to the Hong Kong Immigration Department for naturalisation as a Chinese citizen. He was granted the Hong Kong SAR Passport on 7 March 2015 and Baise made his international debut for Hong Kong against Guam on 28 March 2015.

References

Festus Baise Wikipedia