Serge Lofo Bongeli Senge (born 13 October 1983) is a DR Congolese professional

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who plays as a Striker.

Club 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 ...

, Lofo began his career on the youth side with AS Paulino Kinshasa and was in 1999 promoted to the senior team. After three years with AS Paulino, he joined in winter 2002 to

TP Mazembe Tout Puissant Mazembe, commonly referred to as TP Mazembe, is a Congolese professional football club based in Lubumbashi. History Tout Puissant Mazembe, the first sports club from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a value of at least $10 ...

and played there two season before in January 2004 he was scouted by

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n top club

Atlético Sport Aviação Atlético Sport Aviação, best known as ASA, is a football club from Luanda, Angola. The club was founded in 1953 by a group of workers from TAAG's predecessor DTA. Mr. Jacinto Medina was the first chairman. Before Angola's independence, the c ...

. He had three successful seasons with AS Aviação and signed in February 2007 for Sagrada Esperança, but after one season with the team and four years in Angola he returned to his hometown

, who signed with

AS Vita Club Association Sportive Vita Club, more commonly known as AS Vita Club, AS V. Club or simply Vita Club, is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa. History AS Vita Club was founded in 1935 by Honoré Essabe under the name of ''Renaissance'' in ...

. On 5 February 2010, he left AS Vita Club together with Tychique Ntela Kalema to sign with the German club

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, but this was not a big breakthrough for Serge. On 6 September 2010, he signed a one-year contract with the Belgian club

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. In 2013, he was arrested in Israel on suspicion of murder, but he was released after his friend confessed that he was the one that did the murder.

International career

Lofo was capped nine times by the Congo DR national team, and scored 2 goals.

Career statistics

Honours

* 2008:

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Top Scorer

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lofo Bongeli, Serge 1983 births Living people Footballers from Kinshasa Atlético Sport Aviação players AS Vita Club players G.D. Sagrada Esperança players Maccabi Netanya F.C. players Rot Weiss Ahlen players TP Mazembe players Expatriate footballers in Angola Expatriate footballers in Germany Expatriate footballers in Israel Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo international footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Angola Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Germany Girabola players Israeli Premier League players Association football forwards Daring Club Motema Pembe players CSMD Diables Noirs players Sharks XI FC players R.W.D.M. Brussels F.C. players Democratic Republic of the Congo A' international footballers 2009 African Nations Championship players Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Israel