Gabriel N'Galula
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gabriel N'Galula Mbuyi | ||
| Date of birth | 1 June 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Kinshasa, Zaire | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2001 | Anderlecht | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2006 | Anderlecht | 25 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | → Mons (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Stoke City (loan) | 22 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Standard Liège | 0 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Roeselare | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 67 | (1) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Gabriel N'Galula Mbuyi (born 1 June 1982), sometimes referred to as Junior, is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
[edit]Junior began his career at Anderlecht where he showed promise in his 28 games, but a long injury saw him lose his place to Yves Vanderhaeghe and Besnik Hasi. In the 2004–05 season, he was loaned to Mons, where he played 15 times as Mons suffered relegation to the Second Division at the end of the season. He was loaned again to Stoke City in England for the 2005–06 season, where former Anderlect manager Johan Boskamp had been appointed manager.[1] He played 24 matches for Stoke and left at the end of the season along with Boskamp.
Boskamp was made Standard Liège manager and he signed Junior on a permanent deal, as part of the Mohammed Tchité transfer to Anderlecht in the 2006–07 season. He played one match for Standard, in a UEFA Cup qualification match. He spent the 2007–08 season with Roeselare, before deciding to retire from professional football and pursue a different career.
In 2013, he began working at BX Brussels as a sporting director.[2]
Personal life
[edit]His brother Floribert N'Galula was also a professional footballer.
Career statistics
[edit]| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Anderlecht | 2001–02[3] | Belgian First Division | 12 | 0 | – | 12 | 0 | |||||
| 2002–03[3] | Belgian First Division | 4 | 1 | – | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| 2003–04[3] | Belgian First Division | 3 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 2004–05[3] | Belgian First Division | 6 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Total | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||||||
| Mons (loan) | 2004–05[3] | Belgian First Division | 15 | 0 | – | 15 | 0 | |||||
| Stoke City (loan) | 2005–06[4] | Championship | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 24 | 0 | |
| Standard Liège | 2006–07[3] | Belgian First Division | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Roeselare | 2007–08[3] | Belgian First Division | 5 | 0 | – | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Career total | 67 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 1 | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "Boskamp eyeing pair". Sky Sports. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "BX Brussels: "We are not the Real Madrid of promotion '". Bruzze. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Gabriel N'Galula » Club matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ "Games played by Junior in 2005/2006". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- Living people
- 1982 births
- Democratic Republic of the Congo emigrants to Belgium
- 21st-century Belgian sportsmen
- Belgian men's footballers
- Footballers from Kinshasa
- Men's association football midfielders
- Belgian Pro League players
- English Football League players
- K.S.V. Roeselare players
- Standard Liège players
- R.A.E.C. Mons (1910) players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- Stoke City F.C. players
- Belgian expatriate men's footballers
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate men's footballers in England