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DRC: TP Mazembe are Africa Champions

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  1. Posted on Monday 9 November 2009 - 11:20
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    Walter Wilson Nana, AfricaNews reporter in Duala, Cameroon
    TP Mazembe of DR Congo beat the Heartland of Nigeria 1-0 at home in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province to win the Orange-sponsored African Champions League Trophy. The Congolese carried the day on the away goal rule after losing to the visitors 1-2 in the first leg played in Owerri, Nigeria a week before.
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    Cameroonian Narcisse Amia Ekanga scored the lone goal to give Tout Puissant Mazembe the prestigious Champions League trophy for the third time. TP Mazembe won the African Champions League for the third time in 41 years after earlier exploits in 1967 and 1968 respectively. The Nigerian club, Heartland of Owerri was losing the African Champions League final for the second time, after that of 1988.

    Ekanga, 22, has not only helped the war torn DRC club to win the FCFA 750 million (US$1.5m) converted trophy, but have also qualified the team to the world football governing body, FIFA Club World Cup, billed for the United Arab Emirates, UAE, in December 2009.

    Ekanga and his friends at TP Mazembe will play against Spanish side, FC Barcelona, former Club of Indomitable Lions captain, Samuel Eto’o Fils, in the FIFA Club World Cup.

    French-born trainer of TP Mazembe, Diego Gazitto, who has had stints with the Ethiopian Junior team at the 2001 World Youth Championship, as well as made stopovers in Ivory Coast and Togo before settling for the DRC club expressed joy for haven won the African Champions League title.

    TP Mazembe’s President, who doubles as the Governor of the Katanga Province in the DRC, Moise Katombi has promised to pump in $5 million into his club so as to keep some of his players, who are already being courted by some European football agents and clubs. This is to enable his boys better prepare for the FIFA World Cup for clubs.

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