Nicaise Kudimbana

Nicaise Mulopo Kudimbana (born 21 January 1987) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sint-Eloois-Winkel.

Nicaise Kudimbana
Personal information
Full name Nicaise Mulopo Kudimbana
Date of birth (1987-01-21) 21 January 1987
Place of birth Brussels, Belgium
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Sint-Eloois-Winkel
Number 41
Youth career
2001–2005 Union Saint-Gilloise
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Union Saint-Gilloise[1] 69 (0)
2008–2011 Anderlecht 0 (0)
2008–2009 → Union Saint-Gilloise (loan) 20 (0)
2011 → Cercle Brugge (loan) 1 (0)
2011–2012 Cercle Brugge 1 (0)
2012–2014 Oostende 40 (0)
2014 → Anderlecht (loan) 0 (0)
2014–2015 Anderlecht 0 (0)
2015–2017 Antwerp 47 (0)
2017–2018 Union Saint-Gilloise 15 (0)
2019–2020 Wallonia Walhain 0 (0)
2020 RCS Brainois 0 (0)
2020 Roeselare 0 (0)
2021– Sint-Eloois-Winkel 64 (0)
International career‡
2007 Belgium U21 1 (0)
2008–2017 DR Congo 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 August 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 08:13, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Career

On 21 December 2007, Anderlecht saved the rights on him after he had played one season for Union Saint-Gilloise,[2] after the season returned in July 2009 back to R.S.C. Anderlecht.[3] On 31 August 2011, his contract with Anderlecht was terminated by mutual agreement. On 2 September 2011, it was announced that Kudimbana had signed a one-year contract with his former club Cercle Brugge. Following the 2011–12 season, Kudimbana moved to Belgian Second Division team Oostende.

In January 2014, Kudimbana joined former club Anderlecht on loan from Oostende for the rest of the season. Despite not playing a match in that time Anderlecht signed him up permanently in June 2014.[4]

Ahead of the 2019–20 season, Kudimbana joined Wallonia Walhain.[5][6] Kudimbana had also received an offer earlier that year to become a goalkeepers coach at his former club Anderlecht, where his childhood friend Vincent Kompany had just arrived as player-coach.[7]

On 31 March 2020, Kudimbana moved to RCS Brainois.[8] In July 2020 he signed with Roeselare, but because the club went bankrupt a few months later, he never made an official appearance for the West Flemish club.[9] He only found a new club with Sint-Eloois-Winkel in January 2021.[10] Later that year he also started working as a goalkeepers coach in the youth department of Léopold FC.[11]

International career

He made his first cap for Congo DR national football team against Algeria on 26 March 2008 and is former member of the Belgium U-21.[12]

Honours

Club

Anderlecht

National

DR Congo

References
  1. Nicaise Kudimbana at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. "Anderlecht sur Kundimbana | FOOTGOAL : Le webzine n°1 de l'actualité du Football Belge et International". Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  3. "Boussu-Dour". 2 July 2009.
  4. "Nicaise Kudimbana 2014-2015". Anderlecht. 25 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
  5. Football régional - Tout sur la saison 2019-2020, issuu.com, 28 August 2019
  6. Kudimbana (Walhain): «Fier de la manière dont on l’a remporté», lavenir.net, 26 November 2019
  7. Wauters, Simon (1 August 2019). "Ex-Anderlecht-doelman trekt naar club uit Tweede Amateurklasse". Voetbalkrant.com (in Dutch).
  8. Sterpigny, Sébastien (31 March 2020). "Nicaise Kudimbana (Walhain) a signé au RCS Brainois!". DH Les Sports + (in French).
  9. Stricht, Wouter Vander (27 July 2020). "KSV Roeselare maakt namen van negen nieuwe spelers bekend". KW.be (in Dutch).
  10. Stricht, Wouter Vander (22 January 2021). "Winkel Sport haalt een jeugdvriend van Vincent Kompany als doelman: Nicaise Kudimbana". KW.be (in Dutch).
  11. Sterpigny, Sébastien (9 June 2021). "Nicaise Kudimbana va s'occuper des jeunes gardiens du Léo". DH Les Sports + (in French).
  12. INTERVIEW NICAISE MULOPO KUDIMBANA Archived 10 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  13. "DR Congo Nations Cup squad finalised". BBC Sport. 9 January 2015.


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