No. 13 Dikembe Mutombo Country:
Sport: Basketball
Known for his defensive presence on the basketball court as evidenced in him being second to only Hakeem Olajuwon as the all time shot blocker and winner of the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times, Dikembe Mutombo is the second best defensive basketball player to have come out of Africa after Hakeem Olajuwon.
Hailing from the village of Luba in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dikembe came to the US to attend medical school at Georgetown but was then recruited by the Georgetown Coach John Thompson. Dikembe would then go on to have a storied career at the University and eventually drafted into the NBA by the Denver Nuggets who selected him as the fourth overall pick in the 1991 NBA Draft.
Dikembe would immediately distinguish himself by being selected on the Western Conference All Star team in his rookie year. He would go on to play for quite a number of NBA teams among which were the Houston Rockets where he finally retired in 2009 due to a major injury.
Dikembe is known for his humanitarian work and most notably so the 30 plus million dollar hospital he built in his country named after his deceased Mother ‘The Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital’. He was named International Ambassador by the United Nations to help with global problems and recently got an appointment also by the NBA as its Global Ambassador.
No. 12 Francois Pienaar Country:
South Africa Sport: Rugby
Francois Pienaar is the stuff that legends are made of he was the Captain of the Springboks the South African national Rugby team that won the 1995 World Cup and the circumstances that surrounded their winning of the Rugby World Cup has been depicted in a recent movie; ‘Invictus’.
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