Andre Kona N'Gole (born 16 June 1970) is a Congolese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He started playing for Jomo Cosmos in South Africa where he was discovered by FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who made his transfer to play striker for Gençlerbirliği in the

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, for 5 seasons. By scoring 74 goals including 12 penalties for Gençlerbirliği, he became the all-time top scorer of the club, a record that had previously stood since 1958. Between 1993 (23 August 1993) and 2001 (26 May 2001), he played 147 matches totalling 12,458 minutes for the club. He has scored a total of 97 goals in 265 games in the Turkish Super League. Has duel

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, having gained naturalisation during his career in Turkey. Kona N'Gole played for the

Zaire national football team The DR Congo national football team ( French: ''Équipe nationale de football de la République démocratique du Congo''), recognised by FIFA as Congo DR, represents the Democratic Republic of the Congo in men's international football and it i ...

at the

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and

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finals.

Honours

* Gençlerbirliği **

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(1): 2001

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at TFF.org 1970 births Living people Footballers from Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo men's international footballers 1992 African Cup of Nations players 1996 African Cup of Nations players Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers Antalyaspor footballers Diyarbakırspor footballers İstanbulspor footballers Jomo Cosmos F.C. players Süper Lig players Men's association football forwards 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{Turkey-footy-forward-stub