David Zeferino Malembana (born 11 October 1995) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

for

Bulgarian First League The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

club

Lokomotiv Sofia Lokomotiv 1929 ( bg, Локомотив 1929) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refou ...

. Born in Germany, he represents the Mozambique national team. Formerly of Dynamo Dresden II and

Goslarer SC 08 The Goslarer SC 08 is a German association football club from the city of Goslar, Lower Saxony. The club's most notable achievement was winning the tier-five Niedersachsenliga and earning promotion to the Regionalliga Nord in 2009 and 2012. A ...

, he spent three seasons with

Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berli ...

, before joining

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv ( bg, ПФК Локомотив Пловдив), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park ...

in 2019.

Club career

Malembana began his career at Dynamo Dresden II in 2013 and moved to

two years later. In 2016 he joined

, where he made 56 appearances in the Regionalliga Nordost, winning two

Berlin Cup The Berliner Landespokal ( en, Berlin Cup) is an annual football cup competition held by the Berlin Football Association (German: Berliner Fußballverband, BFV). The cup winner qualifies for the national DFB-Pokal. Cup finals are usually held in t ...

s. On 12 July 2019, Malembana signed a three-year contract with

club

, after a successful trial period with the club. He made his debut a week later, coming on as a substitute for Parvizdzhon Umarbayev in second-half stoppage time of the league match against Slavia Sofia, which finished as a 3–2 home win. In February 2022, Malembana joined the other main "railwaymen" club in Bulgaria -

International career

Malembana was born in Germany to a Mozambican Malagasy father and German mother. He has stated his dream is to play for the Mozambique national team. He was already called up to represent the African country while he was a Berliner FC Dynamo player, but the head coach of the German side prevented him from going. He debuted with Mozambique in a 1–0

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualificationAlso the "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers". was the qualifying process which decided the 31 teams that would join hosts Qatar, who received an automatic spot, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Parallel tour ...

loss to Cameroon on 11 October 2021.

Honours

Berliner FC Dynamo *

: 2017, 2018 Lokomotiv Plovdiv * Bulgarian Cup: 2019–20 * Bulgarian Supercup:

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malembana, David 1995 births Living people People from Freital Mozambican people of German descent German people of Mozambican descent Mozambican footballers German footballers Association football central defenders Mozambique international footballers Oberliga (football) players Dynamo Dresden II players Regionalliga players Goslarer SC 08 players Berliner FC Dynamo players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players Mozambican expatriate footballers German expatriate footballers Mozambican expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria German expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria Footballers from Saxony