Cédric Mongongu (born 22 June 1989) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for the DR Congo national team.

Club career

Mongongu began playing for his local club in La Garenne-Colombes before joining RCF Paris in 2002.

Monaco

He proceeded to join the Centre of Formation at Monaco in 2005 before making his first appearance in a 1–1 draw with

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...

on 4 August 2007. On 3 July 2009, he signed his first professional contract with Monaco. He went on to make a total of 92 appearances for the club. In 2011, Mongongu joined Evian, making his debut on 21 September 2011 against Marseille. In 2015, he joined Eskişehirspor. After only one match his contract was terminated in January 2016.

International career

Mongongu chose to represent the country of his birth at international level

DR Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

Personal life

Mongongu was born in

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

, Zaire, but moved to France as a child growing up in La Garenne-Colombes,

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a Departments of France, département in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner Banlieue, suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the e ...

Honors

National

DR Congo *

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

bronze:

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

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* * * * * * 1989 births Living people Footballers from Kinshasa French footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo international footballers Association football midfielders AS Monaco FC players Thonon Evian Grand Genève F.C. players Eskişehirspor footballers Montpellier HSC players Ligue 1 players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{france-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub