Rangelo Janga
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_(cropped).png) Janga with CFR Cluj in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rangelo Maria Janga[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 16 April 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Eindhoven | ||
| Number | 32 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| JHR | |||
| Excelsior Maassluis | |||
| –2009 | Excelsior | ||
| 2009–2010 | Willem II | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2012 | Willem II | 24 | (3) |
| 2012 | → Excelsior (loan) | 16 | (2) |
| 2012–2014 | Excelsior | 36 | (3) |
| 2014–2015 | Omonia Aradippou | 26 | (5) |
| 2015–2016 | Dordrecht | 34 | (21) |
| 2016–2018 | AS Trenčín | 48 | (28) |
| 2018 | Gent | 17 | (5) |
| 2018–2022 | Astana | 40 | (10) |
| 2020 | → Lugano (loan) | 13 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → NEC Nijmegen (loan) | 36 | (9) |
| 2021–2022 | → Apollon Limassol (loan) | 26 | (4) |
| 2022 | Apollon Limassol | 0 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | CFR Cluj | 30 | (10) |
| 2023 | Bnei Sakhnin | 5 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Nea Salamis Famagusta | 17 | (2) |
| 2024– | FC Eindhoven | 55 | (16) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2009 | Netherlands U17 | 5 | (2) |
| 2011 | Netherlands U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2016– | Curaçao | 43 | (21) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 28 April 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 19 March 2025 | |||
Rangelo Maria Janga (born 16 April 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eerste Divisie club Eindhoven. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Curaçao national team and is their all time top goalscorer.
On 20 July 2018, Janga signed for Astana.[2]
On 17 February 2020, Janga moved to Lugano on loan until 30 June 2020.[3]
On 22 August 2020, Janga moved to NEC Nijmegen on a one-year loan deal.[4]
On 31 August 2022, he moved to CFR Cluj.[5]
On 14 September 2023, he signed for Israeli Premier League club Bnei Sakhnin.[6]
On 22 August 2024, Janga joined Eindhoven on a one-season contract, with the club option to extend for a second year.[7]
International career
Born in the Netherlands to parents of Curaçaoan descent, Janga was called up, and debuted for the Curaçao national football team in a 1–0 loss against Barbados on 24 March 2016 in the first round of the 2017 Caribbean Cup qualification.[8]
On 5 October 2016, he scored his first goal for Curaçao in a 3-0 win over Antigua and Barbuda in the third round of the 2017 Caribbean Cup qualification.[9]
From 2019 to 2023, he was joint top goalscorer of Curaçao with Leandro Bacuna.
However, on 13 October 2023, in a 2-1 defeat against Panama national football team during the 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League, he netted his 15th goal[10] and became Curaçao sole top goalscorer.[11]
