Lelo Mbele


Blaise Lelo Mbele is a retired Congolese footballer who last played for Al-Ahli Club. Lelo previously played for different professional clubs such as South African giants, Orlando Pirates FC and the Saudi Arabian club, Al-Hilal FC.

Career

He helped CS Sfaxien win the CAF Confederation Cup.
On 29 November 2007, Mbele signed with Al Hilal for a fee of $25000 per month to the player and $1.2M to his former club.
He made his Saudi Premier League debut for Al Hilal in a 1–0 away win over Al Watani on 5 December 2007
his first goal for Al Hilal in the 2–0 victory against Al Ittifaq on 10 December 2007.
In 2008, he joined Tunisian side Espérance.
In January 2009, Mbele signed with Sudanese club Al-Hilal for $1 million deal for a 3-year contract. The player's agent cited the financial strength and success of the Al-Hilal to be the favoring deciding factors that made Mbele choose the Sudanese giant. He did not have a good season with Al Hilal so Al Nasr of Libya choose to buy him.
On 12 July 2011, Mbele signed with Kuwaiti club Al Naser.
And on 28 July 2011, Al Naser terminate the contract with Mbele because rupturing in the front muscle.
After being a free agent for 4 months, he eventually joined the Malaysian club, Selangor FA in a two-year contract alongside Lebanese international, Ramez Dayoub. However, due to his injury, Lelo did not manage to play for any games with Selangor and later was released by the Football Association of Selangor.
On 13 August 2012, Mbele signed for Algerian club MC Alger for a 2-year contract.
Bahrain became his fifteenth footballing country when he joined Al-Ahli Club.

International career

Mbele was a member of the Congolese 2006 African Nations Cup team, who progressed to the quarter finals, where they were eliminated by Egypt, who won the tournament.