Bruce Pungu Dombolo (born 27 May 1985) is a former French

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 ...

. After a brief sports career, he fell into banditry and was convicted twice for robberies, spending several years in prison. He is now an actor.

Biography

Earlier life

Of Congolese origin, he was born in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

and spent his childhood in Vitrolles in the Pins district, then in Liourat.

Career

Born in

, Dombolo played for the youth side of

AJ Auxerre Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise (), commonly known as AJ Auxerre or simply Auxerre (), is a French football club based in the commune of Auxerre in Burgundy. The club was founded in 1905 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the first division o ...

. He transferred to Italian

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club

A.C. Ancona Associazione Calcio Ancona, commonly referred to as Ancona, was an Italian football club based in Ancona, Marche. It was founded in 2004 as the phoenix club of defunct 1905 club Unione Sportiva Anconitana, which changed its name to Ancona Calc ...

and made two league appearances during the 2003–2004 season.http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.bruce.dombolo.7930.en.html sports reference retrieved 16 september 2011 He joined

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

side Pro Vasto for the following season, but has since played for only amateur sides.

Banditry

Back in Marseille greater area, he fell into banditry and was arrested for a first time for robbery. After his release from prison, he sets up his own gang and commits several robberies in the region. He and his team were arrested and convicted in 2012 for the robbery of a jewelry store in a shopping mall in Puget-sur-Argens in the Var region two years earlier.

After prison

He is a candidate in the TV show ''Le Grand Oral'' on

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in February 2020.

Filmography

Television

* 2021: L'Enfant de personne : Djibril * 2022: Visions : Ruben Sadri * 2022: Sage-Homme : Prince

References

External links

Profile at Lega Calcio
* * * 1985 births Living people French footballers A.C. Ancona players Footballers from Marseille Marignane Gignac Côte Bleue FC players Association football forwards {{France-footy-forward-1980s-stub