Kaluyituka: We're not here by accident | |
Fifa.com - December 17, 2010 | |
Alain Kaluyituka may not yet be a household name outside his home continent, but keen observers of African football have been aware of his goalscoring exploits for TP Mazembe Englebert for some time now. However, given the rate at which the Congolese forward’s star is rising, it may not be long before he is a household name the world over. | |
TP Mazembe bid for success at the Club World Cup | |
BBC Sport - December 9, 2010 | |
African champions TP Mazembe take on Pachuca of Mexico at the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Mazembe are making their second appearance at the event and are keen to improve on their disappointing performance last year. | |
TP Mazembe savour Champions League title glory | |
BBC Sport - November 14, 2010 | |
Thousands of DR Congo side TP Mazembe fans took to the streets of Lubumbashi to celebrate as the team paraded the Champions League trophy on Sunday. Lubumbashi was a sea of black and white as fans cheered the players as they arrived at the airport from Tunis. | |
Champions League final as it happened | |
BBC Sport - November 13, 2010 | |
Mazembe are champions! The game finished 1-1 on the night in Rades meaning TP Mazembe of DR Congo become the first team ever to win back-to-back African titles twice. They have defended their crown from last year at the expense of an Esperance side which put up a good showing but which ultimately had too much to do from the first leg. | |
Mazembe retains Champions League title | |
Cafonline.com - November 13, 2010 | |
TP Mazembe completed a successful defence of the Orange CAF Champions League after holding Tunisia’s Esperance to a 1-1 draw in the final second leg on Saturday at the November 7 Stadium in Rades near Tunis. Mazembe were winners in 1967 and 1968, and their successfully defence lands them a place in the in the historic books of African football with respect to the foremost club competition. | |
Esperance aim to overturn Mazembe in Champs League | |
BBC Sport - November 12, 2010 | |
Esperance still harbour hopes of winning the African Champions League, despite a 5-0 deficit to TP Mazembe going into the second leg of the final. The game will be played in Rades, near Tunis, on Saturday evening. Mazembe, from DR Congo, are favourites to retain their continental title and qualify for the Fifa Club World Cup. | |
Mazembe destroy Esperance in Champions League final | |
BBC Sport - October 31, 2010 | |
Esperance were no match for TP Mazembe of DR Congo who thrashed the Tunisians 5-0 in the first leg of the final of the Champions League on Sunday. e emphatic victory in Lubumbashi kept alive TP Mazembe's hopes of retaining the title. | |
TP Mazembe Reach Second Consecutive CAF Champions League Final | |
Congo News Agency - October 16, 2010 | |
TP Mazembe have reached the CAF Champions league finals after drawing 0-0 with JS Kabylie at the November 1st, 1954 stadium in Tizi Ouzou on Saturday. The defending champions advance thanks to their 3-1 win at the Stade de la Kenya in Lubumbashi on October 3rd in the first leg of the semi-finals. | |
Mazembe on course for Champions League final | |
BBC Sport - October 3, 2010 | |
Holders TP Mazembe kept alive their hopes of retaining the Champions league trophy after defeating Algeria's JS Kabylie 3-1 in the first leg of the semi final on Sunday. Two goals from striker Alain Kaluyituka Dioko helped the DR Congo side seal the victory in Lubumbashi. | |
TP Mazembe boss fumes over ban | |
BBC Sport - September 14, 2010 | |
TP Mazembe president Moise Katumbi is up in arms over bans handed to two of his club's key players. His outburst comes in the wake of TP Mazembe's qualification for the 2010 Champions League semi-finals. Fifa has imposed a one-year ban on Mputu and an 11-month ban on Lusadisu for their part in an ugly incident during May's Cecafa Club Cup in Rwanda. But Katumbi has slammed the level of punishment as harsh and disproportionate given the ban renders the duo unavailable for the foreseeable future. |