Kennedy Mweene

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Kennedy Mweene
Personnel
birthday December 11, 1984
place of birth Lusaka ,  Zambia
size 186 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
State House
until 2003 Lusaka Celtic
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003 Lusaka Celtic
2004 Lusaka dynamos 27 0(0)
2004-2005 Kitwe United 30 0(0)
2006-2013 Free State Stars 191 (11)
2013– Mamelodi Sundowns 72 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2018 Zambia 121 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 14, 2020

Kennedy Mweene (born December 11, 1984 in Lusaka ) is a Zambian football goalkeeper . The goalkeeper is his country's record player.

Club career

Mweene played for the Zambian clubs Lusaka Celtic and Kitwe United in Division One , the country's second-highest division. In early 2006 he was signed by the South African club Free State Stars and played with the club in the Premier Soccer League . In his first season he was repeatedly in the regular formation, but lost his post again. At the end of the season, the club was relegated to the Mvela Golden League , but Mweene remained loyal to the club and became a permanent goalkeeper.

In the following season they rose to the top national league with an 18-point lead as the first in the table, and they also won the Mvela Golden League Cup , a cup competition for the second division. Also in the 2007/08 season, Mweene was a regular goalkeeper for the Free State Stars. For his achievements in the 2008/09 season, Kweene was named ABSA Premiership Goalkeeper of the Season . As a shooter, Mweene has also been responsible for his team's penalty kicks since the beginning of 2008 .

National team career

Kennedy Mweene made his first senior international match for the Zambian national team against Malawi in 2004 . Before that he won the COSAFA U20 Cup with the U20 national team in 2003 . For a long time he was only a substitute goalkeeper behind Kalililo Kakonje . In 2005, a year after his debut, he came to the game because of an injury to the regular goalkeeper, but made two serious mistakes and had to go back to the bench. After Zambia lost 4-1 to Togo in qualifying for the World Cup, Mweene returned to goal and was able to establish itself for a long time. It was only immediately before the 2006 African Championship that he lost his regular place to George Kolala . In the third and final group game, he returned to the team and helped in the 1-0 victory over neighboring South Africa.

When Patrick Phiri took office after the African Cup, he lost his place in goal again briefly to Kolala, but got it back after a few mistakes by his competitor in the 2006 COSAFA Cup against Botswana. He was in the victorious final against Angola as well as in the CECAFA Cup , when you won the tournament as a visiting team.

At the African Championships in 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2013 and 2015 , Mweene traveled as a regular goalkeeper. In the semi-finals of the 2012 African Cup of Nations, he saved a penalty from Asamoah Gyan , in the final he saved a penalty in a penalty shoot-out and converted himself, thus contributing significantly to Zambia's first African Cup of Nations win. At the 2013 African Cup of Nations, he scored a penalty in the group game against Nigeria to make it 1-1 and thus scored his first goal in the national shirt. He scored his second goal on October 15, 2014 in a 3-0 win against Niger in qualifying for the 2015 African Cup of Nations, again with a penalty. On May 29, 2015, he made his 100th international match in the game for 5th place at the 2015 COSAFA Cup .

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zambia 3-0 Niger

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personal data
SURNAME Mweene, Kennedy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zambian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Lusaka , Zambia