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{{short description|Zambian footballer (born 1979)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Andrew Sinkala
| image = Andrew Sinkala SCP.jpg
| fullname = Andrew Mutambo Sinkala
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|6|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chingola]], Zambia
| height = 1.75 m
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| currentclub = 
| clubnumber = 
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 1998–1999
| clubs1 = [[Nchanga Rangers F.C.|Nchanga Rangers]]
| caps1 =
| goals1 =
| years2 = 1999–2001
| clubs2 = [[FC Bayern Munich II|Bayern Munich II]]
| caps2 = 40
| goals2 = 7
| years3 = 1999–2001
| clubs3 = [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]
| caps3 = 1
| goals3 = 0
| years4 = 2001–2006
| clubs4 = [[1. FC Köln]]
| caps4 = 83
| goals4 = 4
| years5 = 2006–2008
| clubs5 = [[SC Paderborn 07|SC Paderborn]]
| caps5 = 34
| goals5 = 1
| years6 = 2008–2012
| clubs6 = [[FC Augsburg]]
| caps6 = 72
| goals6 = 3
| years7 = 2012–2014
| clubs7 = [[FC Viktoria Köln|Viktoria Köln]]
| caps7 = 23
| goals7 = 0
| totalcaps = 253
| totalgoals = 15
| nationalyears1 = 2000–2010
| nationalteam1 = [[Zambia national football team|Zambia]]
| nationalcaps1 = 18
| nationalgoals1 = 1
}}
'''Andrew Mutambo Sinkala''' (born 18 June 1979) is a Zambian former professional [[Association football|football]] [[midfielder]]. From 1999, he was exclusively under contract with clubs in Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/sinkalaandrew/ | title = Andrew Sinkala | language = German | publisher = |website=fussballdaten.de | accessdate =12 February 2010}}</ref>

==Club career==
After his retirement from professional football, Sinkala continued to play amateur football for SG Köln-Worringen in the sixth-tier [[Landesliga Mittelrhein]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.kicker.de/andrew-sinkala/spieler/2-bundesliga/2009-10/fc-augsburg | title = Sinkala, Andrew | language = German |website=[[Kicker (magazine)|Kicker]] | access-date =13 March 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150313163151/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/vereine/2-bundesliga/2009-10/fc-augsburg-91/24081/spieler_andrew-sinkala.html| archive-date= 13 March 2015| url-status= live}}</ref>

==International career==
Sinkala captained the Zambia U-20 national football team to both the African Youth Nations [[Youth World Cup]] in Nigeria in 1999. He also won his first senior cap in the same year against [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] in an [[Africa Cup of Nations]] qualifier.

He represented the [[Zambia national football team|Zambia national team]] at the Africa Cup of Nations in [[2000 African Cup of Nations|2000]], [[2002 African Cup of Nations|2002]], [[2006 African Cup of Nations|2006]] and [[2010 African Cup of Nations|2010]].

==Personal life==
His late father, Moffat Mutambo, also played for [[Nchanga Rangers F.C.|Nchanga Rangers]] and the national soccer team as a defender. Sinkala's brother, [[Nathan Sinkala]], is also a football player and has also played for Zambia.

==Honours==
* [[DFB-Ligapokal]] winner: 1999, 2000

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Worldfootball.net|andrew-sinkala}}

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[[Category:Living people]]
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[[Category:People from Chingola]]
[[Category:Men's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Zambian men's footballers]]
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