Makabi Lilepo

Makabi Lilepo
Personal information
Full name	Glody Makabi Lilepo
Date of birth	27 July 1997 (age 27)
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Valenciennes
Number	34
Youth career
0000–2019	Vita Club
Senior career*
Years	Team
2019	→ Mbabane Swallows (loan)
2019–2020	Renaissance
2020–2022	Vita Club
2022–2023	Al-Hilal Club
2023–	Valenciennes
International career‡
2021–	DR Congo
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 June 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:17, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Glody Makabi Lilepo, known as Makabi Lilepo (born 27 July 1997) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays for French Championnat National club Valenciennes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo national team.

Club career

Lilepo came up from the youth ranks of AS Vita Club but never made it into the first team or saw any Linafoot playing time.^[1] In late 2018 he was invited to trials at Zamalek SC of the Egyptian Premier League.^[2] In January 2019, after a two-month wait for the paperwork to be finalized, he was loaned to Mbabane Swallows for the 2018–19 Eswatini Premier League season.^[3]^[4] Halfway through the 2019–20 Linafoot season, Lilepo joined FC Renaissance du Congo. He made an immediate impact scoring four goals in his first seven matches with the club.^[1] By 2021 Lilepo had returned to AS Vita and appeared for the club in the 2020–21 CAF Champions League.^[5]

Lilepo made his senior international debut on 17 January 2021 in a 2020 African Nations Championship match against the Congo. Thirteen days later he scored his first senior international goal against Cameroon in a quarter-final match of the same tournament.^[6]

Scores and results list DR Congo's goal tally first.

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	30 January 2021	Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon	Cameroon	1–0	1–2	2020 African Nations Championship
Last updated 17 July 2021

As of match played 28 September 2023.

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^ Ntiwane, Qondile. "BIRDS FINALLY REGISTER DRC STRIKER LILEPO". Eswatini Observer. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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