DR Congo
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DR Congo
FIFA #48COD
How they play
Set pieces and grit.
World ranking
#46
Confederation
CAF · Africa
How they play
Set pieces and grit.
Signature moment
DR Congo — then Zaire — appeared at the 1974 World Cup and became legends for all the wrong and all the right reasons. A player famously ran out of the wall and booted a free kick away before it was taken, which remains one of the most chaotic and inexplicable moments in World Cup history. Nobody fully agrees on why it happened. That energy? It never left. It just waited fifty years for another shot.
The ones to watch
- Chancel MbembaDEFThe defensive rock who has played Champions League football and brings a rare calm-in-the-storm authority to a squad that loves to live on the edge.
- Yannick BolasieMF/FWA fan-favourite winger whose tricks and unpredictability made him a cult hero in the Premier League — chaos in human form.
- Cedric BakambuFWThe striker who has scored goals across Europe and carries the weight of a nation's goal-scoring dreams on his shoulders.
- Arthur MasuakuDEFThe kind of overlapping left-back who forgets he's a defender, which is both terrifying and absolutely thrilling to watch.
- Théo BongondaFWQuick, direct, and impossible to predict — the type of winger who makes defenders genuinely scared to start their shift.
One email the morning of their opener. Nothing else.
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