Mbo Mpenza

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Mbo Mpenza
Personnel
Surname Jérôme Mbo Mpenza
birthday 4th December 1976
place of birth KinshasaZaire
size 167 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1986-1989 LC Mesvins
1989-1993 KV Kortrijk
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1996 KV Kortrijk 63 (34)
1996-1997 Excelsior Mouscron 30 (12)
1997-1999 Standard Liege 52 (20)
2000-2001 Sporting Lisbon 35 0(3)
2001 Galatasaray Istanbul 0 0(0)
2002-2004 Excelsior Mouscron 62 (27)
2004-2008 RSC Anderlecht 86 (20)
2008 AE Larisa 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991 Belgium U-15 1 0(0)
1992 Belgium U-16 1 0(0)
1992 Belgium U-17 4 0(3)
1994 Belgium U18 1 0(0)
1996 Belgium U-21 2 0(2)
1997-2007 Belgium 56 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Jérôme Mbo Mpenza (born December 4, 1976 in Kinshasa ) is a former Belgian football player on the position of a striker .

Career

society

The older brother of Emile Mpenza began his professional career with the then second division club KV Kortrijk . There he was under contract between 1993 and 1996 before moving to Excelsior Mouscron in the first division in the summer . For this he made his debut in the top Belgian division in the 1996/97 season. He developed well from the start, became a regular player and caught the attention of the top Belgian clubs. After only one year at Excelsior, he moved to the top club Standard Liège . With him he reached the final of the Belgian Cup in 1999 , but had to admit defeat Lierse SK with 1: 3 . After two and a half successful years, he left the Reds and moved to the first Portuguese football league for Sporting Lisbon in January 2000 . However, he could not assert himself here and so it happened that he switched to Galatasaray Istanbul in the first Turkish league for six months . In the winter of the 2001/02 season, he moved back to Belgium , back to his hometown club Mouscron, where he found his old form. From 2004 to 2008 he played for the Belgian record champions RSC Anderlecht . With them he won the Belgian championship in 2004, 2006 and 2007 and the Belgian Cup in 2008. After winning the cup, the striker moved to the Greek club AE Larisa in July 2008 . Even at the time of the move it was known that Mpenza was struggling with a stubborn injury. After half a year without a job, he decided to end his active professional career.

National team

Mpenza made 56 international appearances for Belgium , scoring three goals. He was a participant in the 1998 World Cup , the 2000 European Championship and the 2002 World Cup . At the '98 World Cup in France, he was substituted on in all three preliminary round matches of his team. Although the Belgians did not lose a game, they missed the next round with only three points. At the European Championship two years later, in his own country, Mpenza couldn't get past Luc Nilis , Branko Strupar and his brother Emile Mpenza and so only made a brief appearance against Italy . Again the selection kickers failed in the preliminary round. In 2002 at the World Cup he came back to more missions and was behind Wesley Sonck number 2 in the storm of Belgium.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mbo Mpenza on Larisa from June 30, 2008 on transfermarkt.de
  2. Mpenza ends December 16, 2008 on kicker.de