Ndaye Mulamba

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Pierre Ndaye Mulamba (4 November 1948 – 26 January 2019) was a footballer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, who played as a forward. He was nicknamed "Mutumbula" ("assassin") and "Volvo".[1][2]

Football career

Mulamba was born in Luluabourg (now Kananga) in 1948.[3] In 1973, he starred for AS Vita Club of Kinshasa, who won the African Cup of Champions Clubs.[2] 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 Mulamba played for Zaire in both the African Cup of Nations in Egypt [5] and the FIFA World Cup in West Germany. In Egypt he scored 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.[2] 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 or from loss of morale, after not receiving a promised $45,000 match bonus.[1][2]

Later life

In 1994, Mulamba was honoured at the 1994 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia.[2] On returning to Zaire, he was shot in the leg by robbers who mistakenly assumed a former sports star would be a wealthy target.[8][1][2][6] He was sheltered by Emmanuel Paye-Paye for eight months' recuperation.[2] 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.[1] He went to Johannesburg and then Cape Town, where he was taken in by a family in a township.[1] 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.[2] By then Mulamba was unemployed and drinking heavily.[2]

By 2010 Mulamba was working as a coach of local amateur teams and had married a local woman.[1] Forgotten Gold, a documentary filmed in 2008–09, follows him in South Africa and on a visit back to Congo.[6][9] He also met with Danny Jordaan, head of the organising committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[6]

Mulamba suffered from heart, kidney and knee problems in later life and was a wheelchair user.[10][11] He lived in poverty and without recognition in the Khayelitsha township of Cape Town.[10] He died in Johannesburg on 26 January 2019.[11][10][12]

Honours

AS Vita Club
Zaire

References

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