Lelo Mbele
Personal information
Full name Blaise Lelo Mbele
Date of birth (1987-08-10) 10 August 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Kalemie, Zaire[1]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 AS Vita Club 32 (19)
2004–2005 Zulu Royals 29 (7)
2005–2007 Orlando Pirates 31 (7)
2007 CS Sfaxien
2007–2008 Al-Hilal 7 (2)
2008–2009 Espérance 1 (0)
2009–2010 Al-Hilal Omdurman
2010–2011 Al-Nasr Benghazi
2011 Al-Nasr
2011 Şanlıurfaspor
2011–2012 Selangor FA 0 (0)
2012–2014 MC Alger 5 (0)
2012–2013 → CA Batna (loan) 4 (0)
2014–2015 Petro Atlético 4 (0)
2015–2016 DC Motema Pembe 15 (8)
2016–2017 Baf Ülkü Yurdu 15 (2)
2017 Gokulam Kerala 3 (0)
2018 Al-Ahli
International career
2004–2013 DR Congo 13 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Blaise Lelo Mbele (born 10 August 1987) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a striker. Lelo played for different professional clubs such as South African club Orlando Pirates and Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal FC.

Club career

Mbele helped CS Sfaxien win the CAF Confederation Cup.

On 29 November 2007, Mbele signed with Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia for a fee of $25000 per month to the player and $1.2M to his former club.[citation needed]

He made his Saudi Premier League debut for Al Hilal in a 1–0 away win over Al Watani on 5 December 2007. His first goal for Al Hilal came in a 2–0 victory against Al Ittifaq on 10 December 2007.

In 2008, he joined Tunisian side Espérance.

In January 2009, Mbele signed with Sudanese club Al-Hilal for $1 million deal on a three-year contract. The player's agent cited the financial strength and success of the Al-Hilal to be the favoring deciding factors that made Mbele choose the Sudanese club. He did not have a good season with Al Hilal so Al Nasr of Libya choose to buy him.[2]

On 12 July 2011, Mbele signed with Kuwaiti club Al Naser.[3] On 28 July 2011, Al Naser terminated their contract with Mbele after he ruptured a muscle.[4]

After being a free agent for four months, he eventually joined the Malaysian club, Selangor FA in a two-year contract alongside Lebanese international, Ramez Dayoub.[5][6] However, due to his injury, Lelo did not manage to play for any games with Selangor and later was released by the Football Association of Selangor.[7]

On 13 August 2012, Mbele signed for Algerian club MC Alger for a two-year contract.[8]

Bahrain became his fifteenth footballing country when he joined Al-Ahli Club.[1][9]

In 2017, Mbele moved to India after signing with newly formed I-League club Gokulam Kerala.[10]

International career

Mbele was a member of the DR Congo national team at the 2006 African Nations Cup, which progressed to the quarter-finals, where it were eliminated by Egypt, which won the tournament.

References

  1. ^ a b c Lelo Mbele at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ "Lelo-Mbele in the money again". kickoff.com. 3 March 2009. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
  3. ^ "الصفحة غير موجودة – Alraimedia.com". alraimedia.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  4. ^ "العدواني لـ الأنباء النصر يفسخ عقد الكونغولي أمبيولي". alanba.com.kw (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Mbele, Dayoub perkuat Gergasi Merah" (in Malay). 6 December 2011. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  6. ^ "Merah Kuning ambil risiko" (in Malay). 7 January 2012. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Selangor give Congo flop the axe". Football Every Day. The Star. Malaysia. 20 January 2012. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  8. ^ "MCA : Blaise Lelo Mbele débarque à Alger". competition.dz. 14 August 2012. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012.
  9. ^ "TBT: Blaise Lelo Mbele, Pirates' DRC Magician". Soccer Laduma.co.za. 28 November 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  10. ^ Kundu, Abhishek (23 January 2017). "I-League 2018-19: Gokulam FC rope in Haitian midfielder Fabien Vorbe". sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
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