Fwayo Tembo

Fwayo Tembo (born 2 May 1989) is a Zambian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for Lusaka Dynamos.

Fwayo Tembo
Personal information
Full name Fwayo Tembo
Date of birth (1989-05-02) 2 May 1989
Place of birth Lusaka, Zambia
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position(s) Right winger
Right midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Lusaka Dynamos
Youth career
Edusport
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 National Assembly
2008–2010 Étoile Sahel 19 (8)
2010–2012 FC Basel 30 (2)
2012 → Étoile Sahel (loan) 5 (0)
2012–2015 Astra Giurgiu 45 (7)
2015–17 Power Dynamos
2016 → Hapoel Ra'anana (loan) 2 (0)
2018– Lusaka Dynamos
National team‡
2007 Zambia U20
2008– Zambia[1] 254 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 May 2017
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:47, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Football career

Basel

Tembo was born in Lusaka, Zambia. On 29 May 2010, he joined FC Basel from Étoile Sportive du Sahel for a reported fee of €1.2 million.[2] He made his debut on 20 July 2010 in the 3–2 home win against FC Zürich.[3] He scored his first goal for the club on 14 August during the 1–4 home defeat against FC Luzern.[4] He scored another goal from the penalty spot on 10 April 2011 in the away draw against BSC Young Boys in the Stade de Suisse.[5] At the end of the 2009–10 season the Zambian won the Swiss Super League.

Racist incident

Fwayo Tembo left FC Basel after he accused club coach Thorsten Fink of making racist remarks towards him during a training session. Fink is reported to have told a collaborator to "get the monkey down from the tree."[6]

Astra Giurgiu

In the summer of 2012, he signed a contract with the Romanian side Astra Giurgiu.[7]

Power Dynamos

He joined Power Dynamos on a two-year deal on Monday 4 April 2016 and made his debut on Saturday 9 April coming on off the bench at Arthur Davies Stadium in the second half for teammate Luka Lungu in a match Power went on to win 1–0.

He left Power Dynamos during the mid-season transfer window to join Lusaka Dynamos.

International career

Tembo played for the national team in the 2007 African Youth Championship. He was the topscorer of the competition with 5 goals.[8]

He played for the Zambia national under-20 football team during the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup[9] in Canada, scoring a goal from the penalty spot in the game against Jordan national under-20 football team on 1 July 2007.[10]

Fwayo Tembo played for the Zambia national football team at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana.

International goals
Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first.[11]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.5 September 2010Konkola Stadium, Chililabombwe, Zambia Comoros2–04–0Friendly

Honours

Basel

Zambia

  • African Youth Championship Top Scorer: 2007

References
  1. "Fwayo Tembo". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  2. "The Post Newspapers Zambia – Angry Fwayo declines interview". Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  3. Meister, Remo (2010). "Match Report: FCB – FCZ" (in German). FCB homepage. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  4. Meister, Remo (2010). "Match Report: FCB – FC Luzern" (in German). FCB homepage. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
  5. Meister, Remo (2011). "Spektakel und ein 3:3 im Wankdorf". FCB homepage. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  6. "Fotbalistul dorit de Becali a regresat în carieră după ce a fost victima rasismului: "Jos cu maimuţa din copac!"". gsp.ro (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  7. "Astra, what a business!". ProSport. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  8. "African U-20 Championship 2007". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  9. Fwayo Tembo – FIFA competition record
  10. Fifa (2007). "Match Report: Jordan -Zambia". Fifa. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  11. "Monteiro, Dário". National Football Teams. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
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