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{{short description|Nigerian-born Hong Kong footballer}}
{{use Hong Kong English|date=May 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Festus Baise <br /> 法圖斯
| image          = Festus Baise.jpg
| image_size     = 250px
| caption        = Festus with Citizen in 2010
| fullname       = 
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1980|4|11|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Lagos]], Nigeria
| height         = 1.80 m
| position       = [[Defender (association football)#Centre-back|Centre back]]
| currentclub    = 
| clubnumber     = 
| youthyears1    = 
| youthclubs1    = 
| years1         = 2004–2005
| clubs1         = [[Mutual FC|Mutual]]
| caps1          = 
| goals1         = 
| years2         = 2005
| clubs2         = [[South China AA|South China]]
| caps2          = 6
| goals2         = 1
| years3         = 2005–2014
| clubs3         = [[Citizen AA|Citizen]]
| caps3          = 151
| goals3         = 24
| years4         = 2014–2015
| clubs4         = [[Hong Kong Pegasus FC|Pegasus]]
| caps4          = 16
| goals4         = 4
| years5         = 2015–2016
| clubs5         = [[Eastern Sports Club|Eastern]]
| caps5          = 5
| goals5         = 1
| years6         = 2016–2019
| clubs6         = [[Guizhou Hengfeng F.C.|Guizhou Hengfeng]]
| caps6          = 87
| goals6         = 10
| years7         = 2021–2023
| clubs7         = [[North District FC|North District]]
| caps7          = 13
| goals7         = 3
| pcupdate       = 6 June 2021
| nationalyears1 = 2015–2019
| nationalteam1  = [[Hong Kong national football team|Hong Kong]]
| nationalcaps1  = 28
| nationalgoals1 = 2
}}
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'''Festus Baise ''' ({{lang-zh|t=法圖斯}}; born 11 April 1980) is a former [[Nigerian people|Nigerian]]-born [[Hong Kong people|Hong Kong]] professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Defender (association football)#Centre-back|centre back]].

==Club career==
===Early career===
Festus Baise was born in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] and was advised to go to Hong Kong and have tryouts with top tier clubs [[Happy Valley AA|Happy Valley]] and [[Sun Hei SC|Sun Hei]]. He would receive an offer from second tier club [[Mutual FC|Mutual]] where he started his football career in the 2004–05 league season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/festus-baise/|title=Festus Baise|work=worldfootball.net|access-date=2018-05-08}}</ref> Baise would join top tier club [[South China AA|South China]] half way through the season and played in six games, scoring one goal.<ref name="NFT">{{cite news|url=http://nationalfootballteams.com/player/58903/Festus_Baise.html|title=Festus Baise|work=nationalfootballteams.com|access-date=2018-05-08}}</ref>

===Citizen===
On 16 December 2011, Baise scored an own goal, described as a reverse scorpion kick, past his goalkeeper [[Tse Tak Him]] in a 3–2 win over [[Sun Hei SC|Sun Hei]] in the [[Hong Kong First Division League|league match]]. It was selected as the fifth-best own goal of all time by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'''s Steve Wilson.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8967675/Top-10-own-goals-of-all-time.html Top 10 own goals of all time] By Steve Wilson. ''The Daily Telegraph''. 20 December 2011.</ref>

On 21 March 2012, Baise struck a last-minute winner as Citizen edged out Myanmar's [[Yangon United]] 2–1 at Mongkok Stadium to record a first win of the [[2012 AFC Cup]] campaign in Group G.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120912154728/http://www.the-afc.com/en/tournaments/clubs/afc-cup/936-afc-cup-2012/38451-citizen-vs-yangon-united Citizen 2–1 Yangon United] ''The-AFC.com''. 21 March 2012.</ref>

===Guizhou Hengfeng===
On 13 December 2015, Chinese club [[Guizhou Hengfeng F.C.|Guizhou Hengfeng]] signed Baise from [[Eastern Sports Club|Eastern]], citing his performances against [[China national football team|China]] in two matches during [[2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Man |first1=Sum Tak |title=東方大勝元朗歡送楊正光 法圖斯加盟中甲貴州 |url=https://www.sportsroad.hk/archives/99244 |website=Sports Road |access-date=13 December 2015}} {{in lang|zh-hk}}</ref> He arrived at the club on 1 January 2016.

On 1 March 2018, Guizhou announced that Baise had signed a new contract through the end of 2019.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mak |first1=King Zi |title=法圖斯續約貴州恆豐至2019年底 |url=https://www.sportsroad.hk/archives/190784 |website=Sports Road |access-date=1 March 2018}} {{in lang|zh-hk}}</ref> He left the club after his contract expired.

==International career==
Baise was born in Nigeria, and is of Ghanaian descent.<ref name="域陀摩西斯無礙捧尼日利亞封王">{{cite news |url=http://football.hkjc.com/football/special/chinese/2013-anc/anc-expert.aspx |title=域陀摩西斯無礙捧尼日利亞封王 |work=Hong Kong Jockey Club |year=2013 |access-date=3 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404040614/http://football.hkjc.com/football/special/chinese/2013-anc/anc-expert.aspx |archive-date=4 April 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> In December 2012, Baise confirmed that he had applied to the [[Immigration Department (Hong Kong)|Hong Kong Immigration Department]] for [[Nationality law of the People's Republic of China#Hong Kong|naturalisation as a Chinese citizen]].<ref name="申請入籍">{{cite news|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/sports/art/20121212/18098747|title=申請入籍|work=Apple Daily|date=12 December 2012|access-date=12 December 2012}}</ref>
He was granted the Hong Kong SAR Passport on 7 March 2015 and Baise made his international debut for [[Hong Kong national football team|Hong Kong]] against [[Guam national football team|Guam]] on 28 March 2015.

==Career statistics==
===Club===
{{updated|31 December 2019}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sodasoccer.com/search/player/124/247384/94A2D18DC3B0D73A.shtml|title=法图斯|work=sodasoccer|language=zh}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|National Cup
!colspan="2"|League Cup
!colspan="2"|Continental
!colspan="2"|Other
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|[[Mutual FC|Mutual]]||2004–05||[[Hong Kong Second Division League]]|| || ||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-|| ||
|-
|[[South China AA|South China]]||[[2004–05 Hong Kong First Division League|2004–05]]||rowspan=10|[[Hong Kong First Division League]]||6||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS|Appearances in [[Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield]]}}||0||6||1
|-
|rowspan=10|[[Citizen AA|Citizen]]||[[2005–06 Hong Kong First Division League|2005–06]]||19||4||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||19||4
|-
|[[2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League|2006–07]]||17||4||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||17||4
|-
|[[2007–08 Hong Kong First Division League|2007–08]]||24||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||24||1
|-
|[[2008–09 Hong Kong First Division League|2008–09]]||21||2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||21||2
|-
|[[2009–10 Hong Kong First Division League|2009–10]]||5||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||5||0
|-
|[[2010–11 Hong Kong First Division League|2010–11]]||15||2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||15||2
|-
|[[2011–12 Hong Kong First Division League|2011–12]]||16||4||1||0||2||2||6||1||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||25||7
|-
|[[2012–13 Hong Kong First Division League|2012–13]]||18||5||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||2||26||7
|-
|[[2013–14 Hong Kong First Division League|2013–14]]||16||2||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||18||2
|-
!colspan="2"|'''Total'''
!151!!24!!4!!0!!2!!2!!6!!1!!7!!2!!170!!29
|-
|[[Hong Kong Pegasus FC|Pegasus]]||[[2014–15 Hong Kong Premier League|2014–15]]||rowspan=2|[[Hong Kong Premier League]]||16||4||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||2{{efn|One appearance in [[Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield]], One appearance and one goal in AFC Cup Play-off}}||1||21||6
|-
|[[Eastern Sports Club|Eastern]]||[[2015–16 Hong Kong Premier League|2015–16]]||5||1||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||1{{efn|name=HKSCS}}||0||7||1
|-
|rowspan=5|[[Guizhou Hengfeng F.C.|Guizhou Hengfeng]]||[[2016 China League One|2016]]||[[China League One]]||28||6||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||28||6
|-
|[[2017 Chinese Super League|2017]]||rowspan="2"|[[Chinese Super League]]||23||3||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||23||3
|-
|[[2018 Chinese Super League|2018]]||14||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|-
|[[2019 China League One|2019]]||[[China League One]]||22||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||1
|-
!colspan="2"|'''Total'''
!87!!10!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!87!!10
|-
! colspan=3 | Career total
!265||40||4||0||6||3||6||1||10||3||291||47
|}
{{notelist}}

===International===
{{updated|11 June 2019.}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
| rowspan="5"|[[Hong Kong national football team|Hong Kong]]
|2015||10||0
|-
|2016||6||0
|-
|2017||5||0
|-
|2018||6||2
|-
|2019||1||0
|-
! colspan=2|Total!!28!!2
|}

===International goals===
:''Scores and results list Hong Kong's goal tally first.''<ref name="NFT"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%;"
! No. !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || 16 October 2018 || [[Wibawa Mukti Stadium]], [[Cikarang]], [[Indonesia]] || {{fb|IDN}} || align=center | '''1'''–1 || align=center | 1–1 || [[Exhibition game|Friendly]]
|-
| 2. || 16 November 2018 || [[Taipei Municipal Stadium]], [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]] || {{fb|MNG}} || align=center | '''4'''–1 || align=center| 5–1 || [[2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship|2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship qualification]]
|}

==Personal life==
Born in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]], Baise is of Ghanaian descent.<ref name="域陀摩西斯無礙捧尼日利亞封王"/> In December 2012, Baise confirmed that he had applied to the [[Immigration Department (Hong Kong)|Hong Kong Immigration Department]] for [[Nationality law of the People's Republic of China#Hong Kong|naturalisation as a Chinese citizen]].<ref name="申請入籍"/> He was granted a [[HKSAR Passport|Hong Kong SAR passport]] on 7 March 2015. His brother, Henry Baise Okwara (or 亨利, born 16 Apr 1992), is also a footballer.

==Honours==
===Club===
;Citizen
*[[Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield|Hong Kong Senior Shield]]: [[2010–11 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield|2010–11]]<ref name="NFT"/>

;Eastern
*[[Hong Kong Premier League]]: [[2015–16 Hong Kong Premier League|2015–16]]<ref name="NFT"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Soccerway|festus/65684}}

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