Nonda's mysterious journey from Mbarara to Champions League final
Daily Monitor Saturday December 12 2020 Nonda plays for Monaco in the Uefa Champions League. He helped the club to the 2003-04 final where they lost to a young Jose Mourinho’s Porto in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. PHOTO/AGENCIES Advertisement Shabani Christophe Nonda’s profile shows he is a Congolese born in Burundi. But his official pro-file omits his stopover in Uganda, where he briefly trained with Mbarara United, then in the Super-mini league, the current equivalent to Big League in Ugandan football. Swaib Raul Kanyike, who hails from Mbarara, recalls Nonda in the late ‘90s as a “promi...