- Ndaye Mulamba
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N'daye Mulamba Personal information Date of birth November 4, 1948 Place of birth Luluabourg, Zaire Playing position Midfielder 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]
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Football career
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.
Later life
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]
References
- ^ "Player Statistics: Ndaye Mulamba". FIFA. http://img.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=54998/index.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Harding, Andrew (5 June 2010). "Africa's abandoned football legend". BBC Online (BBC). http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/andrewharding/2010/06/africas_abandoned_football_leg.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Maradas, Emmanuel (1998). "Interview with Ndaye Mulamba". African Soccer Magazine. http://simbasports.iquebec.com/interviewndaye.htm. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ "Leopards roar to Germany 1974". FIFA.com. http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicqualifiers/news/newsid=771439.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "From Cape to Congo". World Cup News. FIFA. 21 August 2009. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1092887/index.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b c "Match report: Zaire - Scotland". 1974 FIFA World Cup Germany. FIFA. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=39/results/matches/match=2176/report.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ "Forgotten Gold". Berlinale Talent Campus. Berlin Film Festival. http://tdb.berlinale-talentcampus.de/campus/project/profile/35848. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
External links
External links
- Ndaye Mulamba – FIFA competition record
Zaire squad – 1974 FIFA World Cup 
Categories:- 1948 births
- Living people
- Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers
- 1974 FIFA World Cup players
- 1974 African Cup of Nations players
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