{"id":3996,"date":"2024-02-06T23:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2024-02-06T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T23:34:43","slug":"acknowledge-chitalu-the-black-cat-lebohang-nteko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/02\/06\/acknowledge-chitalu-the-black-cat-lebohang-nteko\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Acknowledge Chitalu: The Black Cat, Lebohang Nteko<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (February 6<sup>th<\/sup> 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ucar\u2019s Records<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is surely time that the late great African legend Godfrey Chitalu\u2019s African Champions Clubs records are properly acknowledged. On this incredible night at the now defunct Dag Hammarsskj\u00f6ld Stadium in Ndola 52 years ago Chitalu made history, setting four African Champions Clubs records in the process. Kabwe Warriors\u2019 scored the most goals by a club in a Champions Clubs tie (11) and the most goals by a club in a Champions Clubs match (9) against Lesotho\u2019s then champions, Majantja, although both of those records have since been broken. Mamelodi Sundowns now hold both records).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chitalu also set two individual records in that tie as well \u2013 the most goals by an individual in a Champions Clubs tie (9), and the most goals by an individual in a Champions Clubs match (7). The latter record still stands to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incredibly, these goals are the missing goals of Chitalu\u2019s wonder year. He didn\u2019t score 107 goals in the calendar year 1972, he scored those during the Zambian season, which lasted from late February to December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contemporary newspaper records and recollections of players of both teams tell thrilling tales of Chitalu\u2019s achievements on January 23<sup>rd<\/sup> 1972 and a fortnight later. Remarkably African football has yet to acknowledge Chitalu\u2019s first goals of 1972. Majantja\u2019s goalkeeper in that tie, Lebohang Nteko called on the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Africain de Football to acknowledge these goals, saying \u2018it would be very, very wrong\u2019 not to acknowledge them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>African football should acknowledge these records, scored by Africa\u2019s record holder in internationals \u2013 his nearest challenger still playing, Mohamed Salah is level with Cameroonian Football Federation President, Samuel Eto\u2019o Fils on 56, over 20 behind Chitalu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anniversary of Chitalu&#039;s Record\" width=\"1220\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuU6GNmgPxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Time to Acknowlege C<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (February 6th 2024) Ucar\u2019s Records It is surely time that the late great African legend Godfrey Chitalu\u2019s African Champions Clubs<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,14,3,4],"tags":[120,25,171,173,172,660,677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}