Claude LeRoy signs a contract to coach DR Congo again | |
BBC Sport - September 2, 2011 | |
Claude LeRoy has signed a three-year contract to coach the DR Congo for a second time. He is aiming to be in the dugout for Saturday's 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Senegal although only to help Santos Mutubile, who will be in overall charge. | |
Eleven Mazembe players named in DR Congo CHAN squad | |
BBC Sport - January 25, 2011 | |
Eleven players from African club champions TP Mazembe have been named in the DR Congo's squad for the African Nations Championship tournament. Coach Santos Mutubile Ditunga also named six players from 2010 league winners Vita Club. The CHAN defending champions also named five players from top club DC Motema Pembe. | |
DR Congo appoint temporary coach as search goes on | |
BBC Sport - May 19, 2010 | |
DR Congo have appointed Otis Ngoma as temporary coach of the national side as the search for a permanent successor to Patrice Neveu continues. The DRC Football Federation says it has a list of more than 30 coaches who they are considering for the vacancy. | |
Motema Pembe appoint Mutubile | |
BBC News - July 16, 2009 | |
DR Congo champions, DC Motema Pembe, have appointed Santos Mutubile as their new coach. Mutubile will combine his new role with his current job as coach of the DR Congo's team for home-based players, whom he led to victory at the first ever African Nations Championship (CHAN) in March in the Ivory Coast. | |
Determination pays for DRC coach | |
BBC News - March 9, 2009 | |
DR Congo coach Muntumbile Santos says that triumph at the African Nations Championship came as a result of sheer determination. The surprise 2-0 victory over Ghana in Sunday's final came just three weeks after Santos had threatened to quit the team, as he did not have a contract with the national federation. | |
DR Congo Leopards win first African Nations Championship (CHAN) | |
AFP/FIFA - March 8, 2009 | |
Democratic Republic of Congo shocked Ghana 2-0 to win the maiden African Nations Championship final. Dioko Kaluyituka put the Leopards ahead one minute into the second half at Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in the Ivory Coast economic capital and Mbenza Bedi added a second on 76 minutes. It was the first triumph for DR Congo in an African Football Confederation (CAF) national team competition since defeating Zambia 2-0 in a replay of the 1974 Nations Cup final in Cairo. | |
DR Congo lift CHAN trophy | |
BBC News - March 8, 2009 | |
The DR Congo beat Ghana 2-0 to win the inaugural African Nations Championship in Abidjan on Sunday. The final - a repeat of last Sunday's group B encounter - was settled by second half goals from Dioko Kaluyituka and Bedi Mbenza. | |
Ghana and DRC in to CHAN final | |
BBC News - March 5, 2009 | |
DR Congo and Ghana will meet in Abidjan in Sunday's final of the first-ever African Nations Championship. Ghana were the first team into the final after beating Senegal on penalties in the Ivorian city of Bouake, while in Abidjan DR Congo beat Zambia 2-1. |
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