Hadji, just after a Leone Stars training session, 4 September 2008
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Moustapha Bangura | ||
| Date of birth | 24 October 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Freetown, Sierra Leone | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2006 | Old Edwardians | ||
| 2006–2008 | Nea Salamis Famagusta | 44 | (9) |
| 2008–2009 | Omonia | 7 | (2) |
| 2009 | → AEP Paphos (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | → Apollon Limassol (loan) | 24 | (6) |
| 2010–2012 | Apollon Limassol | 58 | (16) |
| 2012–2013 | AEK Larnaca | 8 | (1) |
| 2014 | Nikos & Sokratis Erimis | 8 | (2) |
| 2015–2016 | Aris Limassol | 16 | (1) |
| 2016 | Borac Čačak | 10 | (1) |
| 2016 | Zemun | 5 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005– | Sierra Leone | 15 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 September 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:00, 26 August 2015 (UTC) |
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Mustapha Bangura (born 24 October 1989 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean International footballer who last played as an attacking midfielder for Zemun in the Serbian First League.
In 2005, he joined Old Edwardians in the Sierra Leone National Premier League. He spent a season with Edwards before he moved to Europe and joined the Cyprus First Division club Nea Salamina FC in 2006. In 2008, he joined AC Omonoia. The next year he moved to Apollon Limassol and he helped the team to win the 2009–10 Cypriot Cup, scoring also the opening goal of the final. In 2012, he joined AEK on a 2-year deal. In 2014 with joined Nikos & Socratis Erimis Fc. In the summer of 2015, Bangura joined newly promoted Aris Limassol FC. Mustapha 'Haji' Bangura is the second Sierra Leonean player to sign for Aris Limassol after Gibrilla Julius Wobay who joined them on a season loan from Romanian side Universita Craiova.
On February 19, 2016, last day of the Serbian winter transfer window, Bangura signed with FK Borac Čačak, at time a second-placed club at half-season of the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga. He thus became the fourth Sierra Leonean to play in the Serbian highest level after Kelfala Marah, Medo and Lamin Suma. On March 11, in the round 26 of the SuperLiga, Bangura scored his first goal with a header in the 91st minute of the game against Vojvodina. His goal secured Borac a last minutes draw against a direct opponent in the league.