Nathan Sinkala

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Nathan Sinkala
Personnel
birthday November 22, 1990
place of birth Chingola ,  Zambia
size 178 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 2007 Lusaka Celtic
2008–2012 Green Buffaloes
2009 →  Hapoel Ironi Kirjat Schmona  (loan) 0 (0)
2012– TP Mazembe
2014 →  FC Sochaux  (loan) 15 (0)
2014 →  Grasshopper Club Zurich  (loan) 7 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010 Zambia U-20
2011–2012 Zambia U-23
2011– Zambia 43 (3)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 31, 2016

2 As of June 4, 2016

Nathan Sinkala (born November 22, 1990 in Chingola ) is a Zambian football player . The midfielder plays for TP Mazembe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is part of the Zambian national team . His father Moffat Sinkala and his brother Andrew Sinkala were also Zambian internationals.

Career

society

Sinkala played for Lusaka Celtic until 2007 and has been a member of the Green Buffaloes Army Club since 2008 , for which he is active in the Zambian Premier League , the country's top division. In November 2008 he and his compatriot Chisamba Lungu participated as part of an Africa team in several test matches in Russia, which were also attended by numerous European scouts. In early 2009, Sinkala switched to the Israeli club Hapoel Ironi Kirjat Schmona on loan for six months , but did not get beyond assignments in the youth and reserve team and returned to the Green Buffaloes. In 2010 he won the Charity Shield with the club . After winning the Africa Cup in 2012, he signed a three-year contract with the Congolese top club TP Mazembe , where he will meet a large contingent of Zambian players, including Given Singuluma , Stophira Sunzu , Rainford Kalaba , Hichani Himoonde , Kalililo Kakonje and Emmanuel Mbola also has numerous national players. During his time at Mazembe, Sinkala won the Congolese championship twice and was in the final of the CAF Confederation Cup in 2013 .

In January 2014, Sinkala switched to the relegation-threatened French first division club FC Sochaux on loan for six months . The coach there is the former Zambian national coach Hervé Renard , and his teammates include his national team colleagues Stophira Sunzu and Emmanuel Mayuka .

After his time in France , Sinkala was loaned to Europe again , this time to Switzerland to the Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he also stayed for half a year.

National team

In 2007 and 2008 he took part in the COSAFA U-20 Challenge Cup with the Zambian U-20 national team, but both times the team did not get beyond the group stage. In qualifying for the U-20 African Championship in 2009 , he failed with the Zambian team in the last qualifying round 3: 4 against the Egyptians, but in December 2008 he won the bronze medal at the SADC Zone Six U-20 tournament. In the Zambian U-23 team, he played for the first time in January 2011 as part of the qualification for the Pan-African Games against Zimbabwe, but Zambia failed because of its southern neighbor. As a result, he also participated in the qualification for the Summer Olympics .

National coach Hervé Renard called Sinkala in November 2011 for the CECAFA Cup 2011 for the first time in the squad of the Zambian national team , but after the intervention of the CAF , the Zambian team was not allowed to compete there. Instead, he traveled with the national team to a training camp in India, where he made his international debut in a friendly against the Indian national team . A little later he was called up to the provisional squad for the 2012 African Cup of Nations, and after Thomas Nyirenda's injury and the failure to consider Justine Zulu , two competitors for a position in central midfield, Sinkala made the leap into the tournament squad. There he was part of the permanent staff in the defensive midfield and was used in all six tournament games when he won the tournament for the first time and was one of the tournament's discoveries. After reaching the semifinals, Sinkala was promoted from corporal to sergeant within the Zambian army . At the African Cup of Nations 2013 , Sinkala was part of the starting line-up in all three games, but the defending champions failed after three draws, including against the eventual finalists Nigeria and Burkina Faso, in the group stage.

successes

With the club

With the national team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the official CAF registration list for the AFCON 2012
  2. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Profile: Andrew Sinkala (7 Aug 2008)
  3. ↑ a b zambianfootball.net: LWANDAMINA TO UNLEASH NEW GUNS (Dec. 1, 2007)
  4. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Njobvu: Dip in form due to fatigue (April 22, 2008)
  5. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Two under-20 players set to leave for Russia for trials (Nov. 14, 2008)
  6. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Players Abroad: Kola on target, Finnish Cup begins (Feb. 24, 2009)
  7. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Kachepa on the Ball: Transfer & rumor mill news (July 8, 2009)
  8. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Buffaloes win Charity Shield (March 6, 2010)
  9. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Bwalya hoping for Zambian exodus to Europe (March 15, 2012)
  10. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Under-20 mints Bronze (Dec. 12, 2008)
  11. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Junior Chipolopolo booted out despite holding Zim U / 23 (23 Jan 2011)
  12. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Under-23 gun down Rwanda (April 4, 2011)
  13. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Felix Katongo, Kakonje named in the CECAFA Squad (Nov. 1, 2011)
  14. ↑ zambianfootball.net: CAF rule prevents Zambia from participating in CECAFA Cup (Nov. 4, 2011)
  15. ↑ goal.com: Zambia coach Herve Renard wants Nathan Sinkala to play in Europe (29 Jan 2012)
  16. ↑ fifa.com: New faces lighting up Cup of Nations (Feb. 1, 2012)
  17. ↑ zambianfootball.net: Nathan Sinkala promoted as TP Mazembe face Buffaloes (Feb. 5, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Sinkala, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zambian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Chingola , Zambia