Charles Musonda ( born Charles Musonda ; born August 22, 1969 , Mufulira ) is a Zambian footballer who played as a midfielder . Known for playing for the Belgian club Anderlecht and the Zambian national team .
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| Born | August 22, 1969 (50 years old) Mufulira , Zambia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Zambia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | completed his career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Club career
- 2 Personal life
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Club career
The debut for the national team of Zambia took place in 1988 in a match against the team of Ghana . He was part of the national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , where the Zambians reached the quarter-finals, losing to Germany with a score of 0: 4 [1] .
On April 28, 1993, an airplane transporting the Zambian national team had engine problems and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gabon . All 30 people, including the crew and the president of the Zambian Football Association on board, were killed. Musonda was injured and did not fly on that plane. According to rumors, Musonda refused to play for the national team at that time, preferring to play for Anderlecht . Although in an interview he said that he had first heard of a plane crash when he was lying in bed, recovering from knee surgery. From 1991 to 1996, he underwent 7 operations on one knee [2] .
After the career of a football player, Musonda returned to Anderlecht, where he became a coach of the youth squad [3] .
Personal life
Musonda has 4 sons: Lamish , Tika, Charlie Jr. and Matty. They all started the career of footballers in the youth structure of Anderlecht . Lamisha was featured in a project with David Beckham . In June 2012, they all fell into the youth team of the English club Chelsea .
Notes
- β Charles Musonda Biography and Statistics . Sports-Reference.com. Date of treatment March 8, 2010. Archived November 6, 2012.
- β Christopher Berti. " Charly Musonda, l'homme au sourire Γ©ternel ". DH Journal, 23 January 2004. Retrieved on 2008-11-23.
- β Cerclemuseum.be .