Kazadi Mwamba
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Kazadi Mwamba | ||
| Date of birth | 6 March 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Élisabethville, Belgian Congo | ||
| Date of death | 1998 | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| TP Mazembe | |||
| International career | |||
| 1968–1980 | Zaire[1] | 40 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Robert Kazadi MwambaZaire.
Career
Mwamba played for DR Congo giants TP Mazembe and the Zaire national team (now DR Congo).
He was named the Player of the Tournament when Congo won the 1968 African Cup of Nations and followed this up with another victory in the 1974 African Cup of Nations where he was named to the Team of the Tournament.
At the
Leopards and Yugoslavia, Kazadi conceded three goals in the first 20 minutes and was substituted by his Yugoslavian coach, Blagoje Vidinić
.
He appeared in two 1982 World Cup qualifying matches; a 5–2 win over Mozambique on 13 July 1980 and a 3–2 win over Madagascar on 21 December 1980.
Kazadi was voted the
IFFHS Keeper of the Century for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000.[4]
He was the cousin of fellow footballer Bwanga Tshimen.[5]
Honours
TP Mazembe
- Linafoot: 1967, 1969, 1976
- Congo Cup: 1967, 1979
- 1968
- African Cup Winners' Cup: 1980
Zaire
Individual
- Africa Cup of Nations Player of the Tournament: 1968
See also
References
- ^ Appearances for Congo-Kinshasa National Team
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Arruda, Marcelo Leme de (21 January 2000). "IFFHS' Players and Keepers of the Century for many countries". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^ "World Cup Trivia - Fathers, Sons and Brothers, Uncles and Nephews". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
External links
- Kazadi Mwamba – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Kazadi Mwamba at National-Football-Teams.com
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