Fashion Sakala
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Junior Fashion Sakala | ||
Date of birth | March 14, 1997 | ||
Place of birth | Chipata, Zambia | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Oostende | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016–2017 | Nchanga Rangers | 40 | (23) |
2017 | Zanaco | 23 | (11) |
2017–2018 | Spartak Moscow | 0 | (0) |
2017–2018 | → Spartak-2 Moscow | 35 | (10) |
2018– | Oostende | 82 | (24) |
International career‡ | |||
2017 | Zambia U20 | 10 | (7) |
2017– | Zambia | 13 | (1) |
2019– | Zambia U-23 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 June 2019 |
Junior Fashion Sakala (born 14 March 1997) is a Zambian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Belgian Pro League club KV Oostende and the Zambia national team.
Club career
In February 2017, he signed a three-year contract with the Russian Premier League club FC Spartak Moscow which was expected to run to 30 June 2020. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Spartak-2 Moscow on 23 March 2017 in a game against FC Baltika Kaliningrad.[1]
On 9 July 2018, he signed a 3-year contract with the Belgian club Oostende.[2]
International
He made his debut for the senior Zambia national football team on 2 September 2017 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Algeria and was sent off for two bookings in the 56th minute. He also featured for the Zambia u20 team that won the 2017 edition of the Afcon scoring 3 goals. Sakala then made the u20 team that featured in the world cup and were knocked out in the quarter-finals, scoring 4 goals in the tournament.[3]
International goals
- Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first.[4]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 19 June 2019 | Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Ivory Coast | 1–0 | 1–4 | Friendly |
References
- ^ "Game Report by FNL". Russian Football National League. 23 March 2017.
- ^ "NIEUWE AANVALLER: FASHION JUNIOR SAKALA" (in Dutch). K.V. Oostende. 9 July 2018.
- ^ "Zambia-Algeria game report". FIFA. 2 September 2017.
- ^ "Fashion Sakala". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
External links
- Fashion Sakala at Soccerway
- Fashion Sakala at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1997 births
- People from Chipata District
- Living people
- Belgian First Division A players
- Nchanga Rangers F.C. players
- Zanaco F.C. players
- K.V. Oostende players
- Zambian expatriate footballers
- Zambian footballers
- Zambia youth international footballers
- Zambia international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations players
- Zambia under-20 international footballers
- Zambian football biography stubs