This is the information that shook basketball in the DRC on Tuesday 31 May 2022. Indeed, the former coach of the Leopards ladies and gentlemen, Grandpa Kiembe passed away. One of the basketball executives died of an illness in Kinshasa, according to information. He will have succeeded in making his mark, Basketball in the DRC before breaking his pipe.
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With the Leopards, Papy Kiembe has written an exceptional story in basketball. Indeed, he is the pioneer of the Renaissance of men’s basketball in the DRC. He was the coach in 2017 during the AFRO BASKET Tunisia playoffs 2017 disputed in Bangui in CAR and was the one who had allowed the DRC to beat Nigeria then reigning African champion in Tunis.
He was in the technical staff who prepared the Leopards A’, winners of the Afro CAN in Bamako in 2019 but had not made the trip since he had to lead the Ladies Leopards at the Afrobasket Dakar 2019 where a qualification for the pre-Olympic had been snatched but a pity the DRC shone by its absence in Nigeria.
He was therefore a coach in the ladies and gentlemen of the DRC. In club, he was crowned champion of the Congo several times with ASB Mazembe of Lubumbashi in men’s and 4 times champion in women’s at the head of Vita club of Kinshasa.
Semi-finalist in 2019 in Maputo, Mozambique (4is) as it was also with Mazembe. Sick for more than two years, his last appearance in public was in the final of the last Congo Cup in October 2021 with Vita club, final lost to CNSS at the land of the Franco Congolese alliance of Lemba (Kinshasa Center).
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