Bwanga Tshimen
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Raymond Bwanga Tshimen | ||
Date of birth | ( 1949-01-04 ) 4 January 1949 (age 74) | ||
Place of birth | Élisabethville , Belgian Congo | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls ) |
TP Mazembe | |||
International career | |||
1970–1976 | Zaire [1] | 28 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Raymond Bwanga Tshimen (born 4 January 1949 in Élisabethville , Belgian Congo ) is a former footballer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Bwanga won the 1973 African Footballer of the Year while with TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi . During his playing days in the early and mid 1970s he was nicknamed "Black Beckenbauer" by the African and French press due to his playing style. [2]
Bwanga was voted the IFFHS Player of the Century for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000. [3] In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years. [4]
He is the cousin of fellow footballer Kazadi Mwamba . [5]
References
- ↑ Appearances for Congo-Kinshasa National Team
- ↑ "Eto'o joins the greats" . BBC Sport . 4 May 2004 . Retrieved 8 December 2010 .
- ↑ Arruda, Marcelo Leme de. "IFFHS' Players and Keepers of the Century for many countries" . RSSSF . Archived from the original on 30 June 2016.
- ↑ "Οι 200 κορυφαίοι Αφρικανοί" . Sport24.gr. 25 October 2006.
- ↑ "World Cup Trivia - Fathers, Sons and Brothers, Uncles and Nephews" . RSSSF . Retrieved 19 April 2018 .
External links
- Bwanga Tshimen – FIFA competition record (archived)
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