Beat RS Berkane gets $10k and a car -TP Mazembe president promise players
Congo Kinshasa and Linafoot giants Tout Puissant Mazembe president Moise Katumbi has made a personal promise of $10,000 plus a car to each players of the club if they beat Moroccan 🇲🇦 outfit RS Berkane coached by former head coach of AS Vita Florent Ibenge, Felele247.com understands.
The president made the promise after TP Mazembe beat former Champions Pyramids FC 🇪🇬 2-0 at home and qualified for the semi-finals of this CAF Confederation Cup for the first time since 2017 when they won it.
The Lubumbashi giants regulars in the competition, appearing sixth time and one apperance in CAF Cup in 2000.
CAF Champions League
TP Mazembe has won the CAF Champions League title five times, including 2009, 2010, and 2015, and became the first African team to play in the FIFA Club World Cup finals in 2010.
WHO IS MOISE KATUMBI
Moïse Katumbi Chapwe born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He was Governor of Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) until September 2015. He has been described by The Economist as “probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila”.[Jeune Afrique named him “African of the Year” in 2015.
Since 1997, Katumbi has been the president of the football team TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi. The team has won the CAF Champions League title five times, including 2009, 2010, and 2015, and became the first African team to play in the FIFA Club World Cup finals in 2010.
Katumbi has invested heavily in the team and been credited by the media and public as one of the reasons for the club’s success.
Under his tenure, the team has recruited players from Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ghana, and Zambia, and retained local players by paying the highest wages for players in Africa.
Katumbi invested $35 million in building the team a stadium which was completed in 2011.
Katumbi began a football academy in 2012 as a social program to engage and train young Congolese people in the province of Katanga. In 2015, 2,000 young men were enrolled in the academy.
In 2012, Katumbi was elected to the FIFA strategic commission.In 2013, he was elected to the Africa Cup of Nations organizing committee, which he is slated to chair until 2017.
He has also served on the marketing committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 2009.
