Ndaye Mulamba

Ndaye Mulamba

Personal information
Full name	Pierre Ndaye Mulamba
Date of birth	(1948-11-04) November 4, 1948
Place of birth	Luluabourg, Belgian Congo
Position(s)	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	–	(–)
International career
1967–1971	Congo-Kinshasa	–	(–)
1973–	Zaire	–	(–)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba (born 4 November 1948) is a former association football midfielder from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. He was nicknamed "Mutumbula" ("assassin") and "Volvo".

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. 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. In 1974 Mulamba 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, 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. In Germany he captained the team, and played in the 2–0 defeat by Scotland, but was sent off after 22 minutes against Yugoslavia. Zaire were already losing 4–0 by then, and finally lost 9–0. 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.

Later life

In 1994, Mulamba was honoured at the African Cup of Nations in Tunisia. 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. He was sheltered by Emmanuel Paye-Paye for eight months' recuperation. 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. He went to Johannesburg and then Cape Town, where he was taken in by a family in a township. 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. By then Mulamba was unemployed and drinking heavily.

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

External links

• Biography [translated from french]

External links

• Ndaye Mulamba – FIFA competition record