Ardiles-Waku Menga (born 28 September 1983) is a Congolese professional

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who plays as a

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for German club

Sportfreunde Lotte VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club from Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well ...

Career

Born in

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

, Menga grew up in Germany, playing youth football for TSV Venne. He began his professional career in 2001 with

VfL Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its football section. History Foundation to WW2 The cl ...

, where he was topscorer in the 2006–07 season with 15 goals. He moved to

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

in 2007, but was released on 15 December 2008. He signed for

Werder Bremen II SV Werder Bremen II is the reserve team of SV Werder Bremen. It plays in Regionalliga, the fourth level of the German football league system, and has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal on nineteen occasions. It also has won the Germ ...

on 7 January 2009, but he was released at the end of the 2009–10 season, later signing with

SV Wehen Wiesbaden SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. Since the beginning of the 2007–08 season the club no longer plays its home games in Taunusstein, where they were originally located. In the summer of 2007 ''W ...

. On 18 September 2012, he joined

SC Preußen Münster SC Preußen Münster (English: Prussia Münster) is a German sports club based in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia which is mostly recognised for its football section. The football team currently plays in Regionalliga West which is the fourth tie ...

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* * Living people 1983 births Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers Footballers from Kinshasa Men's association football forwards Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Oberliga (football) players VfL Osnabrück players FC Hansa Rostock players SV Werder Bremen II players SV Wehen Wiesbaden players SC Preußen Münster players VfB Oldenburg players BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden players Sportfreunde Lotte players Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{DRCongo-footy-bio-stub