Dominick Kumbela
Domi " Dominick " Kumbela ( April 20, 1984 in Kinshasa ) is a German - Congolese football player who is under contract with first division side Eintracht Braunschweig since 2010. He attended due to his behavior off the field on several occasions for nationwide headlines.
Career
Association
Kumbela began his career in the U-19 youth team of FK Pirmasens and moved to season 2002/ 03 1 FC Kaiserslautern, for the U -19 youth team and then for the second team, he was active. In November 2005, he was dismissed because of the use of cannabis.
The third division FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt gave Kumbela a second chance and signed him during the winter break of the season 2005/06. After he was in his first season without scoring, he was promoted the following season to the service provider. Nevertheless, he drew another negative headlines. So Kumbela was accused of being involved in the football betting scandal. Therefore, the Frankfurt District Court convicted him of "band moderate agreement for commercial fraud " to pay a fine. Also on the square made Kumbela talk to Undiszipliniertheiten of itself. He was referred to at the beginning of the 2007/ 08 within a few weeks three times for Unsportsmanlike conduct of the field. In December 2007, he finally announced his club with immediate effect after he had beaten his girlfriend and a bouncer in a nightclub Erfurt. The bouncer he broke the eye socket, and he entered on his lying on the floor, pregnant girlfriend. For the FC Rot -Weiß Erfurt Kumbela completed 56 Regional games and scored 17 goals.
In the second half of the season 2007/ 08 Kumbela then played at Premier League rivals Eintracht Braunschweig, for whom he scored two goals in 14 games. For the season 2008/ 09 he moved to third division side SC Paderborn 07 After the re-emergence of the SCP itself Kumbela joined the second division rivals Rot Weiss Ahlen in which his contract was terminated by the club but already the middle of November 2009.
In January 2010 he returned to Eintracht Braunschweig, with whom he won the championship at the end of the season 2010/11 and rose to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 38 non- league games, the striker scored 19 goals, thus contributed significantly to the rise in and was, together with the Heidenheim Patrick Mayer also scorer. Also in the 2nd Bundesliga Kumbela remained the top scorer of his club. After 10 goals in the season 2011/12 he was in 2012/13 with 19 goals scorer in the Bundesliga 2 and increased with the Brunswickers to the Bundesliga. Beginning in February 2013 he extended his contract until the end of June 2016. Through a longing scribe he missed the Saisonstart.Am August 25, 2013 (3rd Round ) in the 0-2 defeat at home to Eintracht Frankfurt Kumbela debuted in the Bundesliga. With the deficit to 2-0 win in the 86th minute, the away victory against VfL Wolfsburg on October 5, 2013 ( 8th Round ), he scored his first Bundesliga goal. After each could achieve a Dreifachtorerfolg both in the Regionalliga Nord and in the 2nd Bundesliga, he succeeded on February 15, 2014 ( 21 Matchday), in a 4-2 victory in the home match against Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. This Kumbela was the 7th player in the Bundesliga history to score a hat-trick as a substitute.
National
In December 2012, coach Claude Le Roy called him into the extended squad of the Congolese national team for the African Cup of Nations 2013. However, he later decided not to play for his country in order to focus on the second Bundesliga.
- 2011: North - Athlete of the Year
Others
Since 2013, Dominick Kumbela committed to Show Racism the Red Card - Germany eV In April he took part in a workshop of the education initiative and told the pupils about his own experiences with racism and discrimination. He also participated in the campaign "Our team against racism " part.