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| Full name | Pierre Ndayé Mulamba | ||
| Date of birth | November 4, 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Luluabourg, Zaire | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Pierre Ndayé Mulamba (born 4 November 1948[1]) is a former association football midfielder from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. He was nicknamed "Mutumbula" ("assassin") and "Volvo".[2][3]
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Ndaye was born in Luluabourg (now Kananga). In 1973, he starred for AS Vita Club of Kinshasa, who won the African Cup of Champions Clubs.[3] He was a second-half substitute for the Zaire national team against Morocco in the decisive match in qualification for the 1974 World Cup.[4] In 1974 Ndaye played for Zaire in both the African Cup of Nations in Egypt and the World Cup in West Germany. In Egypt he scored all nine goals, still a record,[5] as Zaire won the tournament. He was awarded the Order of the Leopard by President Mobutu Sese Seko.[3] In Germany he captained the team,[5] and played in the 2-0 defeat by Scotland,[6] but was sent off after 22 minutes against Yugoslavia.[6] Zaire were already losing 4–0 by then, and finally lost 9–0.[6] Ndaye said later that the team had underperformed, either in protest[2] or from loss of morale,[3] after not receiving a promised $45,000 match bonus.
In 1994, Ndaye was honoured at the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia.[3] On returning to Zaire, was shot in the leg by robbers who mistakenly assumed a former sports star would be a wealthy target. Some new information goes against the "robber" theory, check the biography in the external links. [2][3][5] He was sheltered by Emmanuel Paye-Paye for eight months' recuperation.[3] During the First Congo War, Ndaye's eldest son was killed and in 1996 he fled to South Africa as a refugee, alone and destitute.[2] He went to Johannesburg and then Cape Town, where he was taken in by a family in a township.[2] In 1998, a minute's silence was held at the African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso after an erroneous report that Mulamba had died in a diamond mining accident in Angola.[3] By then Ndaye was unemployed and drinking heavily.[3]
By 2010 Ndaye was working as a coach of local amateur teams and had married a local woman.[2] Forgotten Gold, a documentary filmed in 2008–9, follows him in South Africa and on a visit back to Congo.[5][7] He also met with Danny Jordaan, head of the organising committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[5]
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