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When football fans hear the surname ‘Bwalya’, many instinctively think of Kalusha Bwalya, the former Zambia captain who lost almost all his international team-mates when their airplane crashed en route to a match in 1993. Bwalya was making his own way to the game and was thus spared the same fate.
Two years later, his namesake Walter Bwalya was born in Lubumbashi in Congo DR. With the city more than 2,200 kilometres from Kinshasa, and closer to Zambia than the country’s capital, Bwalya has both Congolese and Zambian nationality.
After beginning his professional career in Congo DR, the striker then represented several Zambian clubs before joining El Gouna in the Egyptian Premier League. The 25-year-old made rapid progress, top-scoring during his season-and-a-half there, which paved the way for a move to…