Gode Katembo
Men's Soccer Head Coach
Athletics
Loewen Athletic CentreAfter four seasons patrolling the Blazers' backline as a player from 2019-2023, Gode Katembo made the jump to a co-head coaching position for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons alongside Anderson Pereira. For the 2025-26 season Katembo has fully taken the reins as he hopes to steer the program to its first MCAC championship since futsal in 2020 and the program's first ever berth in a CCAA Men's Soccer National Championships, as the MCAC was not yet part of the CCAA when the Blazers last won the outdoor title in the fall of 2018. A two-time recipient of the MCAC's True Sport Award, Katembo also made his mark on the CCAA, being only one of six athletes chosen from across Canada as a CCAA Torchbearer Award recipient for his work in the soccer community in Winnipeg.
Already a local legend in the soccer community, Katembo's reach in the soccer community spreads far beyond CMU's borders, having founded the Sports Without Boundaries organization with programs specifically targeting new and recent immigrant populations and getting them involved in the soccer and basketball communities. Katembo has also founded the Manitoba edition of the Canadian Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, bringing together teams from across African backgrounds in a cultural event intertwined in and around the soccer focal point.
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