Cédric Mongongu

Cédric Mongongu is a Congolese professional footballer, born on 22 June 1989, who plays as a centre back and has represented the DR Congo national team. He was born in Kinshasa, then called Zaire, and grew up in La Garenne-Colombes in the Hauts-de-Seine area of France, where he began with his local club before joining RCF Paris in 2002. In 2005 he entered the youth centre at Monaco, made his first-team debut against Saint-Étienne on 4 August 2007 and signed his first professional contract in July 2009, going on to make 92 appearances for the club. He moved to Evian in 2011 and in 2015 to Eskişehirspor in Turkey, a stay that lasted a single match before his contract was ended in January 2016. Although raised in France, he chose to play internationally for the country of his birth, and DR Congo won the bronze medal at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.