Jason Mayélé

Jason Mayélé ( born January 4, 1976 in Kinshasa; † 2 March 2002 Bussolengo ) was a Congolese football player.

Club career

Mayélé spent his childhood in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo until he moved to France in 1985. There he began to play football, but also dabbled in the sports of boxing and basketball. After a stint at a small club from Brunoy the player was taken in 1994 by the second division side LB Châteauroux under contract. In his first season he came to regular operations and could advance in the course of the season 1996/97 for regular players. At the end, he also succeeded in promotion to the top French league. According to the Direct relegated again in 1998, Mayélé opted for a move abroad and signed with the Italian first division club Cagliari Calcio. In Cagliari in Sardinia, he remained first team regular, rose with the team in 1999 but from the second division and then lost a his place. Even though he still came on regular missions, the Congolese were adopted in October 2001, the offer of a change to the first division side AC Chievo Verona. In Verona he was indeed a regular place, but ran as the Joker often for the team. His last league game he played on 17 February 2002, a 1-1 draw against Lazio.

National

The player was in 2000, and thus taken into account after joining Cagliari, the first time for the national team of his home country of Congo. He was successful as a top scorer in the first year, where he scored five goals in five games. For the African Cup of Nations 2002, he was appointed to the squad, reached with the selection of the quarter-finals and was in three of four games on the court. However, was able to achieve a goal Mayélé, who played a total of ten matches in the tournament is not.

Death

Mayélé had already returned shortly after the African Cup of Nations in the Italian gaming operation when he was on 2 March 2002 in preparation for the league game against FC Parma on the same evening with the car on the way to the training ground. He lost control of his car, the detected another car, in which a man died and another was seriously injured. Mayélé was also seriously injured and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Bussolengo, where he died a short time later. Because of his death, the planned league match against Parma was canceled and discharged at a later date.