Entre la coupe et l'élection
Entre la coupe et l'élection (Between the Cup and the Election) is a 2008 documentary film co-directed by Monique Mbeka Phoba and Guy Kabeya Muya. It tells of Zaire's football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and what happened to the players afterwards. Synopsis The national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Leopards, won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1968 and 1974. They then competed in the 1974 World Cup in Germany. They were the first Sub-Saharan African team to qualify, and hopes were high. The team was decisively beaten, scoring no goals in three games against Scotland, Yugoslavia and Brazil. The Scots were openly racist against the Congo team. In the last game the Leopards let Brazil win a third goal so they could qualify for the next round, and ensure Scotland could not. The Leopards' pay was stolen by corrupt officials and they had to return home to face an angry dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko. However, they were each given a car and a house. A group of young film students from the National Institute of Arts, Kinshasa tracks down the players, now living in obscurity, often without money and in poor health.