Ndumba Makeche

Ndumba Makeche (* March 4, 1992 in Lusaka ) is an Australian- Zambian footballer.

Career

Makeche grew up in the Zambian capital Lusaka on with his father. Football he played there only disorganized base with friends. Shortly before his 15th birthday, he came with his brother in the Western Australian capital of Perth to his mother, who lived there for two years. Background for the move were the better educational opportunities in Australia. In Perth he joined the Stirling Lions, with their youth team, he was a laggard in the final of the Youth Cup in 2007 and 2008. 2008 it succeeded without defeat this season, winning the championship in the U-18 Youth League in the league 's internal election to the Youth Player of the Year 2008 Makeche took second place. The following year he was also the first time sporadically for the first team in the Western Australia Premier League action. As of 2010, the striker the adult area of ​​the Lions was a member of durable, played in the 2010 season, but mostly in the reserve team whose leading scorer he was. When winning the State League Cup in 2010 with a 2-1 win against Floreat Athena Makeche came on shortly before the end of the victory Goal Scorer Ludovic Boi.

Dissatisfied with its operating times with the Lions, the attacker moved to the 2011 season for Premier League rivals Inglewood United. In Inglewood Makeche be established in the starting lineup and formed together with Rory Grant one of the most dangerous duos in the league, the season he finished with eleven season hits. By season's end, he accepted an offer of professional clubs Perth Glory to play for the youth team in the National Youth League. In the following months Makeche stabbed with eight goals scored out as achievers of junior teams and was therefore called by head coach Ian Ferguson for the game on March 18, 2012 in Gold Coast United in the professional squad. In the 0-3 defeat he was by Substitutes in the 79th minute his A- League debut. In the subsequent play-offs, who graduated Glory as runner-up, he did not make it into Round squad.

In May 2012, he received, as well as youth team - mate Brandon O'Neill, a two -year contract as a professional at Perth Glory. In addition to his footballer career, he studied economics and marketing at Murdoch University, but switched to studying sports science later. The Australian citizenship Makeche received in August 2012 as Zambia so far does not allow dual citizenship, he has lost with this assumption the Australian presumably.