By Chris Mbunwe
As the United Soccer season League, USL 2, in the US wraps up next month, Cameroon born Mathew Andongcho Mbuta, 22, for the second season, would be the playmaker everyone in the East Coast of America would continue to talk about.
Andongcho
He scores the goals, though, not the highest goal scorer of the championship, but perhaps is the master planner of every action that makes Crystal Palace Baltimore ticks.
Blessed with brimming confidence and invention, the ferocious pace and acceleration of this forward who also plays in the midfield all make him the player to watch in every match of his side.
Having played in the US for barely two seasons Andongcho is not only a real born to his club, but has astonished both his manager and playmates with his keen knack to adapt to American Soccer.
Though he dreams to play in big European Clubs, the bearer of No. 12 jersey has not for a moment relent his effort to impress his fans and employer at Baltimore with a splendid spell at Malaysian DPMM FC where he left an indelible mark before crossing over to America, Andongcho remains a priceless assert of the Baltimore team. But like any great player with a big ambition, Europe is the preferred place to shine.
Talking to the Press recently, Andongcho said, "I don't want to move to another team in the US because my ambitions is to play in Europe," declares the attacker who continues to lure countless soccer agents with his flair and control of the ball. "If you take a close look at the game, you would discover that football is really big in Europe than is the case in America."
While any team is yet to officially show interest in the player, his dream remains Manchester United, the English and European giant. "Apparently, if I have the chance, I will really impress them because I know I have the quality of a star player," Andongcho declared.
It would be recalled that Andongcho embraced football as a career when he was luckily selected to train at the Brasseries du Cameroun Football School in Douala in 1996. Upon graduation, Mankon United, a second division Club recruited him.
As he barely settled down to play club football, PWD Bamenda scouted him out and moulded him into a rising star. In his first season with the Division one Club, the buddy striker scored 12 goals in 20 appearances, and emerged the third best player of the championship. Thanks to his endeavour, PWD qualified for the CAF Cup, which the team was only ousted at the eight finals, but with Andongcho netting five goals in four continental matches.
With such a huge eagerness to score goals and equally contribute to a team's victory, he could not have remained unnoticeable by national team trainers. Andongcho, earned his first cap with the national cadet team in 2000, because a star with the junior team and narrowly missed to join the under 23 team to take part in next month's Beijing Olympic games in China due to an itinerant hitch.
That is my Son Mbuta go ahead
We need you.
Posted by: mk the southerner | Monday, 28 July 2008 at 05:08 PM
This guy got football skills and i think he should go to Europe and meet the Worlds best players.He truly deserve it.
Posted by: Petit Elvis | Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 09:28 AM
Kid, you've got to get a friend to tape some of your plays and put them on youtube. Believe it or not, that is the first place the Euro recruiters are going to look, before coming to spy on you playing for Baltimore.
Posted by: Oyez | Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 11:52 AM
Andongcho if you have the time, you can visit me and stay with me and I will personally take you to a club and may be you organise some training with them.If you need more details and my contacts, call this number
0045 75 12 99 83
Posted by: petersen | Tuesday, 14 July 2009 at 04:09 PM