Ndaye Mulamba
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pierre Ndaye Mulamba | ||
| Date of birth | November 4, 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Luluabourg, Belgian Congo | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1964 | Renaissance du Kasaï | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1964–1971 | Renaissance du Kasaï | – | (–) |
| 1971–1972 | AS Bantous | – | (–) |
| 1972–1988 | AS Vita Club | – | (–) |
| National team | |||
| 1967–1971 | Congo-Kinshasa | – | (–) |
| 1973– | Zaire | – | (–) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Pierre Ndaye 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]
Football career
Mulamba 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 and scored the opening goal as Zaire won 3-0.[4] In 1974 Mulamba played for Zaire in both the African Cup of Nations in Egypt[5] and the World Cup in West Germany. In Egypt he scored all nine goals, still a record,[6] as Zaire won the tournament. Mulamba was named Player of the Tournament and was awarded the National Order of the Leopard by President Mobutu Sese Seko.[3] In Germany he captained the team,[6] and played in the 2–0 defeat by Scotland,[7] but was sent off after 22 minutes against Yugoslavia.[7] Zaire were already losing 4–0 by then, and finally lost 9–0.[7] Mulamba 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.
Later life
In 1994, Mulamba 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][6] He was sheltered by Emmanuel Paye-Paye for eight months' recuperation.[3] During the First Congo War, Mulamba'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 Mulamba was unemployed and drinking heavily.[3]
By 2010 Mulamba 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.[6][8] He also met with Danny Jordaan, head of the organising committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[6]
References
- ↑ "Player Statistics: Ndaye Mulamba". FIFA. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Harding, Andrew (5 June 2010). "Africa's abandoned football legend". BBC Online (BBC). Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Maradas, Emmanuel (1998). "Interview with Ndaye Mulamba". African Soccer Magazine. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ↑ "Leopards roar to Germany 1974". FIFA.com. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ↑ Maradas, Emmanuel (28 March 2006). "Qu’est devenu Ndaye Mulamba?" (in French). La Conscience.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "From Cape to Congo". World Cup News. FIFA. 21 August 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- 1 2 3 "Match report: Zaire – Scotland". 1974 FIFA World Cup Germany. FIFA. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ↑ "Forgotten Gold". Berlinale Talent Campus. Berlin Film Festival. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
External links
External links
- Ndaye Mulamba – FIFA competition record
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