- Emment Kapengwe was one of Zambia’s leading footballers in the ’60s
- Kapengwe was born in Broken Hill in 1943
- He lost his father at an early age but his mother got married again to
Mr. Njalili Kapengwe whose surname youngEmment adopted - Emment first went to the Catholic School in Broken Hill from 1949 to 1951 and when his father joined the mines on the Copperbelt
- Emment and his family moved to Kitwe where he got interested in football and like many of Zambia’s soccer stars
- He learnt the game the hard way
- Due to lack of facilities, Kapengwe and his friends used to play on
a bare ground at Bwafwano community centre in Kamitondo Township with tennis balls and home-made footballs - In 1956, his father was transferred to Bancroft (Chililabombwe) and so began Kapengwe’s induction in organised sport
- Kapengwe hit the soccer limelight in 1963 when his club picked him to play against a visiting Southern Rhodesian side Magula FC
- Kapengwe died on 17 September 1988 in Lusaka after suffering from a stroke.
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