Derby Makinka
Personal information
Full name Derby Makinka
Date of birth (1965-09-05)5 September 1965
Place of birth Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Date of death 27 April 1993(1993-04-27) (aged 27)
Place of death Atlantic Ocean, off Gabon
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1989 Profund Warriors
1989 Pomir Dushanbe 3 (0)
1990 Darryn Textiles Africa United
1991–1993 Lech Poznań 3 (0)
1993 Al-Ettifaq
International career
1985–1993 Zambia[1] 98 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Derby Makinka (5 September 1965 – 27 April 1993) was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.[2]

Career

Makinka played club football for Profound Warriors in Zambia, where he was voted Zambian Footballer of the year in 1989,[3] before moving to Pomir Dushanbe in the Soviet Top League near the end of 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics.[4] With this move he became the first African, along with Pearson Mwanza and Wisdom Mumba Chansa, to play in the Soviet Union. Makinka's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Makinka went on to play for Darryn Textiles in Zimbabwe, Lech Poznań in Poland and Ettifaq FC in Saudi Arabia.[5]

Personal life

Makinka had three children - one son and two daughters.[6]

Honours

Lech Poznań

References

  1. ^ Derby Makinka - International Appearances
  2. ^ "Remember Gabon air victims on Heroes day" Archived 2005-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Zambia - Player of the Year". RSSSF. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Future looks black". When Saturday Comes. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Muere la selección de Zambia" [Zambian selection dies] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 29 April 1993.
  6. ^ Farayi Mungazi & Ian Hughes (29 April 2014). "Derby Makinka's children still seek answers over his death". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Derby Mankinka - tragiczne losy lechity z Afryki" (in Polish). Lech Poznań. 27 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

External links

Zambia squads
1993 Zambia national football team plane crash
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