Bobo Ungenda

Bodrick Ungenda Muselenge[1][3] (born 19 November 1989), commonly known as Bobo Ungenda, is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Angolan Girabola club Primeiro de Agosto and the DR Congo national team.

Bobo Ungenda
Personal information
Full name Bodrick Ungenda Muselenge
Date of birth (1989-11-19) 19 November 1989[1]
Place of birth Kasa-Vubu, Kinshasa, DR Congo
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Primeiro de Agosto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
20??–2015 DC Motema Pembe
2015–2016 Kabuscorp
2017– Primeiro de Agosto
National team‡
2012– DR Congo 12 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Ungenda was born in 1989 in Kasa-Vubu, Kinshasa, and played football for the Kinshasa-based clubs AC Tonnerre and FC Les Stars before joining DC Motema Pembe.[4] He went on to captain the team, but in 2015 the club declared all its players available for transfer, and Ungenda left in what was initially described as a six-month loan to Angolan Girabola club Kabuscorp.[5]

Ungenda moved on to Primeiro de Agosto ahead of the 2017 Girabola season, at the end of which he was named Best Foreign Player in the Girabola, and narrowly missed out on the main Player of the Year award to his team-mate, Geraldo.[6] He helped them win three consecutive league titles,[7] and represented them in the CAF Champions League. In the 2018 edition, Ungenda scored a 98th-minute winner against ZESCO United that proved instrumental in their qualifying from the group stage,[8][9] and helped them reach the semi-final in which he had a second-leg away goal disallowed that would have left Espérance de Tunis needing to score five. Espérance won the tie 4–3 on aggregate and went on to win the competition.[10][11][9]

International career

Ungenda represented his country at under-age levels[4] before receiving his first call-up to the DR Congo senior squad for a 2014 World Cup qualifier against Cameroon in June 2012. A shock inclusion in the starting eleven for a match played in an "atmosphere of hostility", Ungenda had time to receive a yellow card before being substituted after just 15 minutes. Cameroon won 1–0.[12] He played in all four of DR Congo's matches at the 2014 African Nations Championship,[13] and captained his country at the 2016 COSAFA Cup, at which DR Congo lost to Swaziland in the bronze-medal match.[14][13] Ungenda was named in DR Congo's 23-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.[3]

References
  1. "Player details: Bodrick Ungenda Muselenge". Confederation of African Football (CAF). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  2. "Futebol: Plantel: Bobó Ungenda" [Football: Squad: Bobo Ungenda] (in Portuguese). Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  3. "Liste des 23 de Florent Ibenge pour la CAN 2019" [Florent Ibenge's 23-man list for AFCON 2019] (in French). Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association (FECOFA). 11 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  4. Mansianga, Fonseca (14 March 2017). "«Bobo» Ungenda, l'autre Congolais qui fait son nom en Angola" ["Bobo" Ungenda, the other Congolese making his name in Angola]. Foot.cd (in French). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  5. "Le DCMP crée Imana Football Participation pour gérer la section football" [DCMP is setting up Imana Football Participation to run the football section] (in French). Radio Okapi. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. Mansianga, Fonseca (6 November 2017). "D1 Angola: Bobo Ungenda élu meilleur joueur étranger" [Angola D1: Bobo Ungenda voted best foreign player]. Foot.cd (in French). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  7. "Girabola: Bobo Ungenda et Jacques Bakulu sacrés champions d'Angola avec Primeiro de Agosto" [Girabola: Bobo Ungenda and Jacques Bakulu crowned champions of Angola with Primeiro de Agosto]. Eventsrdc.com (in French). 3 September 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  8. "Agosto fight back to beat Zesco". SuperSport. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  9. Stokkermans, Karel (5 April 2019). "African Club Competitions 2018". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  10. Madyira, Michael (24 October 2018). "Primeiro Agosto coach Manojlovic blames refereeing for Caf Champions League exit". Goal.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  11. Khmira, Souhail (24 October 2018). "Champions League: Primeiro unhappy with conditions at Esperance". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  12. "Courte victoire 1-0 du Cameroun face aux Léopards en éliminatoires de la Coupe du monde" [Cameroon's narrow victory 1-0 against the Leopards in World Cup qualifiers]. Congo Planète (in French). Agence Congolaise de Presse (ACP). 3 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  13. "Bobo Ungenda". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  14. Angengwa, J. (22 June 2016). "Florent Ibenge et Bobo Ungenda y croient ferme" [Florent Ibenge and Bobo Ungenda firmly believe] (in French). FECOFA. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.