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Secretsof thestars

1 Central midfielder Manuel Nyanga Kambala was born on August 21, 1991 in the seaport town of Quelimane, located in the Zambezia province in Mozambique. He is third of eight kids. “We were six boys and two girls but one of my sisters passed away,” he says.

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