Saidi Ntibazonkiza

Saidi

Personal information
Full name	Saidi Ntibazonkiza
Date of birth	(1987-05-01) 1 May 1987
Place of birth	Bujumbura, Burundi
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Cracovia
Number	10
Youth career
	Vital'O
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2005	Vital'O
2006–2010	N.E.C.	63	(10)
2010–	Cracovia	52	(10)
International career‡
2010–	Burundi	9	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 July 2013 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 July 2013

Saidi Ntibazonkiza (born May 1, 1987 in Bujumbura) is a Burundian footballer, who plays for Polish Ekstraklasa club Cracovia and the Burundian national team.

Career

Ntibazonkiza started to play football at Vital'O. As an asylum seeker, he came to the Netherlands in 2005. NEC was the nearest professional football club, and because of that, he trained with their youth team. NEC then signed Ntibazonkiza when they saw his huge potential. At the beginning of the 2006–07 season, he began play with the youth team, but was shortly thereafter brought up to the first squad. On November 18, 2006, against Sparta Rotterdam, the Burundian national played his first game in the Eredivisie. After receiving a Dutch residence permit, Ntibazonkiza signed a contract that will bind him to NEC until the summer of 2009. He also signed a contract extension until 2012 in January 2009.

Season	Club	Country	Competition	App.	Goals
2002/'05	Vital'O	Burundi	Burundi League	?	?
2006/'07	N.E.C.	Netherlands	Eredivisie	7	0
2007/'08	N.E.C.	Netherlands	Eredivisie	6	0
2008/'09	N.E.C.	Netherlands	Eredivisie	28	5
2009/'10	N.E.C.	Netherlands	Eredivisie	22	5

International career

He played for several Burundian youth teams, and for his national squad.

External links

• Saidi Ntibazonkiza at National-Football-Teams.com
• Saidi Ntibazonkiza at 90minut.pl (in Polish)