Full name Nii Adamah Plange Years Team Weight 70 kg Number 43 Height 1.75 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Nii Plange Career start 2006 | |
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Date of birth (1989-06-26) 26 June 1989 (age 26) Current teams Burkina Faso national football team (Midfielder, Forward) | ||
Nii Adamah Plange (born 26 June 1989) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Académica de Coimbra mainly as a right winger.
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Club career
Born in Accra, Ghana, Plange began his career with local Feyenoord, moving to ASEC Mimosas on loan in July 2009. In the 2012 summer, following another spell with Feyenoord Ghana, he moved to Portugal and joined Sporting Clube de Portugal, initially being assigned to the reserves in the second division. He made his Primeira Liga debut in the last day of the season, playing one minute in a 4–1 away win against S.C. Beira-Mar.
On the last day of the summer transfer window of 2013, Plange moved to fellow league club Vitória de Guimarães. He played his first competitive game for his new team on 14 September, coming on as a 58th-minute substitute in a 1–0 success at Rio Ave FC.
Plange signed a two-year deal with Académica de Coimbra (also in the Portuguese top flight) on 16 July 2015.
International career
Plange made his international debut for Burkina Faso on 10 August 2011, in a friendly game against South Africa. He was selected by manager Paulo Duarte as he possessed dual nationality due to being married to a Burkinabé woman.