BERLIN – VfB Stuttgart striker Silas Wamangituka has revealed to his club that his name and birth date are different and that the data had been changed years ago by a former agent who was controlling him as a teenager, the Bundesliga club said on Tuesday.
The forward told the club he had been living in fear since leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo at the age of 17 to play for French lower league club Ales.
“It was a difficult step for me to reveal my story,” the striker said in a club statement. “Only through the support of my new advisor did I dare do this.”
He said his real name was Silas Katompa Mvumpa and his birth date was a year later, from 1999 to 1998, making h…
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