Emile Mpenza

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Emile Mpenza
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Personnel
Surname Eka Basunga Lokonda Mpenza
birthday 4th July 1978
place of birth Zellik ,  Belgium
size 177 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1986-1989 LC Mesvins
1989-1995 KV Kortrijk
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-1996 KV Kortrijk 32 0(5)
1996-1997 Excelsior Mouscron 31 (12)
1997-1999 Standard Liege 46 (20)
2000-2003 FC Schalke 04 79 (28)
2003-2004 Standard Liege 28 (21)
2004-2005 Hamburger SV 36 0(5)
2006 Al-Rayyan Sports Club 19 0(9)
2007-2008 Manchester City 25 0(5)
2008-2009 Plymouth Argyle 9 0(2)
2009-2010 FC Sion 31 (21)
2010–2012 Neftçi Baku 31 0(6)
2013-2014 SC Eendracht Aalst 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-1996 Belgium U18 7 0(6)
1995 Belgium U-19 7 0(0)
1996 Belgium U-21 3 0(0)
1997-2009 Belgium 57 (19)
1 Only league games are given.

Eka Basunga Lokonda "Emile" Mpenza (born July 4, 1978 in Zellik ) is a former Belgian football player of Congolese descent. Like his older brother Mbo, he was a Belgian international.

Club career

Mpenza learned to play football until 1995 in the youth department of KV Kortrijk . There he got into the professional squad of the second division team in the summer and became a regular player. After a season he followed his brother Mbo Mpenza to Excelsior Mouscron . In his first year in Belgium's top division, he prevailed and gained attention from the top Belgian teams. So it happened that he left Excelsior after just twelve months and was transferred to Standard Liège . With the Reds , the young striker developed further and played his way into the notebooks of the scouts of European clubs.

The next step in the career of the sprint-strong striker was finally to switch to FC Schalke 04 in the winter of the 1999/2000 season . With a transfer fee of DM 17 million, Mpenza was the most expensive player in Schalke's history at the time. He made his debut in the Bundesliga on February 5, 2000 against Arminia Bielefeld . He was able to shine with an assist. In the following game he was successful himself when Mpenza scored a 2-1 lead against Werder Bremen . He scored his first Bundesliga double on March 18, 2000 in a 3-0 win against VfB Stuttgart . With these good performances in his first six months with the Royal Blues , Mpenza developed into a top performer and was next to Gerald Asamoah and Ebbe Sand in the Schalke storm. Despite his only 15 appearances in the first season, he was the team's third-best shooter with six hits. Mpenza played a major role in the Schalke DFB Cup victory and the 2001 runner-up. In 2002, the Belgian international won the cup again with Schalke.

After a bad season and many arguments with the board, especially with Rudi Assauer , he returned to Standard Liège in 2003. In the 2003/04 Jupiler League season Mpenza scored 21 goals, but had to admit defeat by Excelsior Mouscron in the race for the title of top scorer Luigi Pieroni and then returned to the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV . There he was never able to establish himself as a regular player and was mostly in the shadow of Sergej Barbarez . On January 10, 2006, he moved to Al-Rayyan Sports Club in Qatar for 1.3 million euros . On February 16, 2007 he moved to Manchester City , where he only made a few appearances in two seasons and where he was mostly just a spectator behind attackers like Darius Vassell , Bernardo Corradi , Georgios Samaras or the young Stephen Ireland . Since he received no new contract after his second season in Manchester and was free transfer, Plymouth Argyle secured the services of Mpenzas for the 2008/09 season and brought him into the Football League Championship , the second English division.

At the beginning of July 2009 Emile Mpenza moved to the Swiss club FC Sion and signed for two years plus an option for a third year. In the 2009/10 season he scored 21 goals for FC Sion in the Axpo Super League and together with Cristian Ianu and Marco Streller took second place on the top scorer list.

In August 2010 Mpenza moved to Azerbaijan and signed a contract with the first division club Neftçi Baku . In the summer of 2012, the former Belgian international was declared without a club and retained this status until the beginning of October 2013, before he returned to Belgium to join SC Eendracht Aalst , where he ended his career until summer 2014.

National team career

Mpenza was a Belgian national player . With the Belgian national team, he took part in the 1998 World Cup in France and was a substitute in the three preliminary round matches. Two years later he was in the national team for the European Championship . In this he was set next to Branko Strupar and Luc Nilis and scored the only striker goal of his team. He was absent from the 2002 World Cup due to an injury. After more than two years of abstinence, Mpenza celebrated his comeback in the national team in August 2009. He made a total of 57 international matches and scored 19 goals.

titles and achievements

Private / other

  • Mpenza is married and has one son.
  • Around the year 2000 he was in a relationship with the then Miss Belgium , the model Joke van de Velde .
  • He starred in Dominique Standaert's Belgian film Hop .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schalke sign Belgian Emile Mpenza  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 2, 2000 on rp-online.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  2. ↑ Match statistics Arminia Bielefeld - FC Schalke 04 1: 2 (0: 1) from February 5, 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  3. ↑ Match statistics FC Schalke 04 - SV Werder Bremen 3: 1 (1: 1) from February 8, 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  4. ↑ Match statistics FC Schalke 04 - VfB Stuttgart 3: 0 (0: 0) from March 18, 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Schalke separates from Emile Mpenza , accessed on September 12, 2014
  6. ↑ Emile Mpenza becomes HSVer from May 18, 2004 on transfermarkt.de
  7. ↑ Emile Mpenza on Man City from February 15, 2006 on transfermarkt.de
  8. ↑ Manchester City: The 2006/2007 roster ( memento of the original from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballdaten.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  9. ↑ Plymouth brings Mpenza from September 2nd, 2008 to transfermarkt.de
  10. ↑ Belgian international on Sion. derbund.ch, accessed on July 9, 2009 .
  11. ↑ Ex-Schalke Emile Mpenza moves to Azerbaijan on goal.com
  12. ↑ Belgium: The EM squad 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  13. ↑ News ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballnet.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballnet.de
  14. ↑ Emile Mpenza: "Also a quick guy in love" ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 12, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiegel.de
  15. ↑ From problem child to model professional from November 5, 2004 on spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Mpenza, Emile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mpenza, Eka Basunga Lokonda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Zellik