Derby Makinka
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Derby Makinka | ||
Date of birth | 5 September 1965 | ||
Place of birth | Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) | ||
Date of death | April 27, 1993 | (aged 27)||
Place of death | Atlantic Ocean, off Gabon | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1984–1989 | Profound Warriors | ||
1989 | Pomir Dushanbe | 3 | (0) |
1990 | Darryn Textiles Africa United | ||
1991 | Lech Poznań | 3 | (0) |
1993 | Ettifaq | ||
National team | |||
1985–1993 | Zambia | 98 | (10) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Derby Makinka (born 5 September 1965, in Harare, Southern Rhodesia, died 27 April 1993) was a Zambian footballer and member of the national team. He was among those killed in the crash of the team plane in Gabon in 1993.
Career
Makinka played club football for Profound Warriors in Zambia, where he was voted Zambian Footballer of the year in 1989, before moving to Pomir Dushanbe in the Soviet Top League near the end of 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. With this move he became the first African, along with Pearson Mwanza and Wisdom Mumba Chansa, to play in the Soviet Union. Makinka's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Makinka went on to play for Darryn Textiles in Zimbabwe, Lech Poznań in Poland and Ettifaq FC in Saudi Arabia.
Personal life
Makinka had three children - one son and two daughters.
- 1965 births
- 1993 deaths
- Sportspeople from Harare
- Zambian footballers
- Zambian expatriate footballers
- Zambia international footballers
- Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Zambia
- 1990 African Cup of Nations players
- 1992 African Cup of Nations players
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Gabon
- Expatriate footballers in the Soviet Union
- Ettifaq FC players
- Lech Poznań players
- Expatriate footballers in Poland
- Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- CSKA Pamir Dushanbe players
- Soviet Top League players
- Saudi Professional League players
- Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
- Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
- Association football midfielders
- Footballers killed in the 1993 Zambia national football team plane crash