Four birthdays controversy: Chancel Mbemba’s career has been marked by an unusual administrative anomaly involving four recorded birth dates spanning 1988 to 1994.
While European records list his birthday as August 8, 1994, various official and unofficial platforms have documented his birth year as 1988, 1990 and 1991.
Earliest recorded roots: The earliest birth date tied to the defender is August 1988, registered by his first youth clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, E.S.
La Grace and Mputu.
If this timeline were accurate, it would mean he was playing at the highest level of European football while being six years older than his official documents suggested.
