Mwamba Kazadi

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Mwamba Kazadi
Personnel
Surname Robert Mwamba Kazadi
birthday March 6, 1947
place of birth Belgian Congo
date of death 1998
size 175 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
u. a. TP Mazembe
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Zaire
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Mwamba Kazadi (more rarely also Muamba Kazadi ; * March 6, 1947 , † 1998 ) was a Zairean football goalkeeper . With the national soccer team of Zaire he took part in the World Cup qualification in 1974 and 1982 and was also able to qualify for the World Cup in West Germany in 1974 with his home country .

Career

Kazadi, who spent a large part of his club career with his parent club TP Mazembe , acted for many years as a regular in the goal of Zaire or the Central African country previously known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo . After he could not play in Zaire's first World Cup qualifier on June 6, 1972, he played his first World Cup qualifier with Zaire on June 20, 1972, which ended in a clear 4-0 victory over Togo . He then led his team as a regular goalkeeper through the entire World Cup qualification and finally made it to the World Cup finals in West Germany after a 3-0 win over Morocco . Kazadi played nine of Zaire's eleven fixed qualifying games. The eleventh and last game was rated 2-0 for Zaire, however, as the Moroccans, who were in a hopeless position, decided not to play in the second leg. During his nine qualifying appearances, he was only substituted once. This happened on February 27, 1973 in the 2-0 win over Cameroon , where Otepa Kalambay , who was later also in the World Cup squad, came into play for him. Kazadi and his team won seven of his nine qualifying games and only had to admit defeat just two times with 0: 1.

Because of these achievements, he took part in the 1973 election for Africa's footballer of the year , but in the end had to admit defeat to his compatriot and club colleague Tshimimu Bwanga . However, his second place in this election can also be considered Africa's Goalkeeper of the Year award. With the rather small Zairean national team, he finally appeared at the World Cup finals in all three group games of Zaire. By the time he entered the World Cup, Kazadi had made a total of 52 official international appearances for Zaire. As successful as the qualification for Zaire was, the team did so badly in the final round. After a 2-0 defeat against Scotland , the big setback followed in the second group game against the home country of Zaire's head coach Blagoja Vidinić . After just 18 minutes of play, the Zairean team were 3-0 down against Yugoslavia , which prompted Vidinić to take an unprecedented step. In the 22nd minute of the game, while Zaires Mulambu Ndaie was erroneously sent off with a red card by the Colombian referee Omar Delgado , he took Kazadi out of the gate and instead replaced the inexperienced Dimbi Tubilandu , who was next to the third goalkeeper Kalambay before the World Cup Appearance had also only played one international match.

This was the first time at a World Cup finals that a player was not removed from the game due to injury or other physical reasons. This move turned out to be just as fatal, however, as Tubilandu's first touch of the game was when he got the ball out of his own goal. The Yugoslav Ivica Šurjak had met Tubilandus 4-0 in the same minute as substitution. In the end, Zaire lost the game in the Park Stadium in Gelsenkirchen with a 0: 9, the highest defeat in the history of Zaire and the DR Congo to date. In the following insignificant group game against Brazil , in which Kazadi was again in Zaire's goal, the Central Africans were again clearly defeated 3-0. At the end of the group stage, they were eliminated from the 1974 World Cup with 14 goals conceded from three games and not a single goal scored. Kazadi was still successful in the national team of his home country after the World Cup and was also used in 1980 in two qualifying games for the 1982 World Cup for Zaire. At that time, however, the team did not make it to the World Cup finals, which were held in Spain .

In 1998, when he passed away, he was voted Africa's Goalkeeper of the Century . There he came in with 19 points behind Joseph-Antoine Bell , Thomas N'Kono , Sadok Attouga and Badou Zaki in 5th place. Two years later he was voted Goalkeeper of the Century for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) by the IFFHS . He was also voted Zaire's Sportsman of the Millennium.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c sportsillustrated.cnn.com ( Memento from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Zaire's "Leopards" reach World Cup 1974 , accessed on February 24, 2011
  3. ↑ FIFA Technical Report (p. 105) (PDF; 14.2 MB), accessed on February 24, 2011
  4. ↑ Legendary referrals in World Cup history (Fig. 3 of 28) , accessed on February 24, 2011
  5. ^ IFFHS 'Century Elections | Africa - Keeper of the Century , accessed February 24, 2011
  6. ^ IFFHS 'Players and Keepers of the Century for many countries , accessed February 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kazadi, Mwamba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kazadi, Robert Mwamba (full name); Kazadi, Muamba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Congolese soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaire
DATE OF DEATH 1998