The striker Trésor Mputu retires at the age of 37. Mputu will always remain an enormous talent who has preferred to turn his back on the sirens of European clubs and thrive in Congo and Africa.
After very long weeks of straining his spleen, playing intermittently, and spending the last six months not putting his racquet on the pitch, Trésor Mputu has finally confirmed what everyone already knew. This Wednesday, February 8th, during an interview with Nyota RTV, a media outlet close to the Tout Puissant Mazembe club, the Congolese striker laconically formalized his retirement from the football field.
This brings down the curtain on the career of one of the most talented players on the African continent in the last 20 years. A true legend in Congo, but whose performances have received very little media coverage in Africa and especially the rest of the world. Those who stood by him and coached him, like France’s Claude le Roy, saw him take his place naturally in the league of African football’s greatest talents.
“the player mentioned before is the kind of player who could win you a match, a tournament, a trophy,” adds Senegalese Lamine Ndiaye, who led TP Mazembe to the final of the Club World Cup in 2010. really want it, he was at the level of the best African players.
He has always been at the heart of the career of the native of Kinshasa. The talent that he got could have made the happiness of several major European clubs. Arsenal and Arsene Wenger were so close to seeing Mputu put on the Gunners’ tunic. But the eternal number 8 never wanted to leave the nest of Cordeaux de Mazembe. Because in Lumumbashi, he was a living god.
Maryam Lahbal