Bodrick Ungenda Muselenge (born 19 November 1989), commonly known as Bobo Ungenda, is a Congolese professional

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who plays as a defender for Angolan

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club

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and the DR Congo national team.

Club career

Ungenda was born in 1989 in

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, and played football for the Kinshasa-based clubs AC Tonnerre and FC Les Stars before joining

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. He went on to captain the team, but in 2015 the club declared all its players available for transfer, and Ungenda left in what was initially described as a six-month loan to Angolan

club Kabuscorp. Ungenda moved on to

ahead of the

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season, at the end of which he was named Best Foreign Player in the Girabola, and narrowly missed out on the main Player of the Year award to his team-mate, Geraldo. He helped them win three consecutive league titles, and represented them in the

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. In the 2018 edition, Ungenda scored a 98th-minute winner against

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that proved instrumental in their qualifying from the group stage, and helped them reach the semi-final in which he had a second-leg away goal disallowed that would have left

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needing to score five. Espérance won the tie 4–3 on aggregate and went on to win the competition.

International career

Ungenda represented his country at under-age levels before receiving his first call-up to the DR Congo senior squad for a 2014 World Cup qualifier against

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in June 2012. A shock inclusion in the starting eleven for a match played in an "atmosphere of hostility", Ungenda had time to receive a

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before being

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after just 15 minutes. Cameroon won 1–0. He played in all four of DR Congo's matches at the

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, and captained his country at the

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, at which DR Congo lost to

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in the bronze-medal match. Ungenda was named in DR Congo's 23-man squad for the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ungenda, Bobo 1989 births Living people Footballers from Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo men's youth international footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Daring Club Motema Pembe players Kabuscorp S.C.P. players C.D. Primeiro de Agosto players Linafoot players Girabola players 2014 African Nations Championship players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people