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Biggie Mbasela (24 October 1962 – 1 May 2000), better known as Gibby Mbasela is a former Zambian footballer who played for Kalulushi Modern Stars, Mufulira Wanderers, Nkana Red Devils, 1. FC Union Berlin of Germany and Tunisian champions Esperance. Renowned for his dribbling skills, Mbasela was voted Zambian Footballer of the Year in 1990. ==Playing career== Mbasela was born in Kitwe and after playing youth football and for amateur teams he joined Zambian League Division II side Big Coke in 1983 and moved to Premier League team Kalulushi Modern Stars two years later.〔Anon. "Gibby Mbasela buried" ''Times of Zambia,'' 4 May 2000, p.10〕 He was one of Stars’ leading performers, winning many admirers with his dribbling skills. He earned the nickname "Cool It" due to his tendency to slow down the game and dribble at his own pace, as well as several other nicknames all in attestation to his ball skills – "Dribbling Wizard," "''Mupike''" meaning ‘dribble past him,’ "''Bapwishe''" meaning ‘dribble past them all,’ which he was quite capable of. Early in his career, a newspaper report erroneously gave his first name as Gibby and this was the name he would be known by throughout his career. At the start of the 1987 season he moved on to a bigger challenge when he signed for Mufulira Wanderers for a transfer fee of K3,000. After an impressive showing as a winger or centre-forward which was rewarded with a Heroes & Unity Cup medal, Mbasela returned to Kalulushi at the end of the season and stayed with Stars for two seasons. He was on the move again but this time to league champions Nkana Red Devils where we would form a deadly partnership with Kenneth "Bubble" Malitoli which helped Nkana win the league championship in 1990. With his distinctive ‘table-cut’ hairstyle, Mbasela created so many opportunities for his strike partner and also weighed in with a fair amount of goals. He was man of the match in the Heroes & Unity Cup final which Nkana won by beating Kabwe Warriors 2-0, scoring the first goal with a glorious strike and setting up the second for Beston Chambeshi.〔Banda, Mann "Devils lift cup" ''Sunday Times of Zambia'', 12 August 1990, p.8〕 Although Nkana suffered a major disappointment when they lost the Africa Club Champion's Cup to JS Kabylie of Algeria on post-match penalties in Lusaka, Mbasela crowned a fine season with the 1990 top player award. The following season he won the Charity Shield and the Independence Cup. After starring for Zambia at CAN 1992, Mbasela was signed by German second division club 1. FC Union Berlin during the German winter break. His first game for Union Berlin was against FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf on 10 May 1992 which they won 7 – 0. He made an immediate impact scoring 4 goals in his first 5 matches and stayed at Union for one and half seasons, scoring 17 goals in 44 appearances.〔Biggie "Gibby" Mbasela ''immer unioner'' http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.immerunioner.de/mbasela-gibby.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgibby%2Bmbasela%26hl%3Den%26tbo%3Dd%26rlz%3D1T4ADFA_enZM428ZM430&sa=X&ei=VFO7ULwWk5aFB_vCgMAE&ved=0CH4Q7gEwDw (retrieved 2 December 2012)〕 In July 1993 Mbasela was on the move again this time to Tunisian giants Esperance after turning down a number of offers including one from Saudi Arabian club Al Shabab.〔Chansa, Melody "Gibby Mbasela dies" ''Times of Zambia,'' 2 May 2000, p.10〕 He stayed at Esperance for a single season and left in June 1994 to return to Kalulushi Modern Stars. After a serious injury sustained while playing for Zambia in a World Cup qualifier against Zaire in Harare in April 1997, Mbasela was out of action for two seasons but returned for Modern Stars in a league game against Zanaco on 27 June 1999 in Lusaka and lasted the entire 90 minutes and gave a good account of himself on the pitch.〔Gondwe, Kennedy and Chisenga, Oliver (28 June 1999) "Kalulushi Stars hold Zanaco" ''All-Africa'' http://allafrica.com/stories/199906280142.html (retrieved 27 November 2012)〕 He however retired from football at the end of the year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gibby Mbasela」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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