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‘SCARS OF PAST MADE MY FUTURE’

Hungry Zanzala’s living the dream…

By Tom Harle

NET GAIN: Offrande Zanzala celebrates scoring for Accrington Stanley and, inset, with manager John Coleman

ACCRINGTON Stanley call themselves ‘the club that wouldn’t die’ – a strapline that means more to Offrande Zanzala than most.
The Stanley striker has gone from fleeing war-torn Congo to leading the line in the mill towns of Lancashire, so isn’t exaggerating when he calls his footballing journey ‘a miracle’.
Zanzala was a three-yearold toddler when his family fled the second Congo...

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