“This club, it's all my life. I am born with this club”. Makam tells us with passion and much emotion, about the "AS VEA Sport" a club created by his father in 1992, when he was only 2 years old. A Very simple club in the Tshangu district in Kinshasa. But a true passion that grows year after year, that he passed on even after leaving Congo for France (Montargis). “ I was seven years old, I had just discovered European football. I was a fan of Real Madrid and the Olympique Marseille, especially of Didier Drogba. Today, I am a fan of PSG!”

But my main passion is for the "AS VEA" Club. Later, when he lived in Kinshasa for a while, he dreamed of a new start for his dad's club. “When I saw people's enthusiasm for this club, it became clear to me I had to do something for it”. With more than two millions inhabitants in Tshangu, I believe its potential was high: “I was willing to get together all young people of the district and bring them into the club”. In 2013, when his dad pulled out of the club, Makam accepted to take its place without any doubt: he very simply decided to buy the club. “My father thought he had failed, he wanted to bring the club to the top. I was willing to put all my energy to achieve that too".

At 23, Makam became the youngest president of a football club in Congo. He seriously wants to create “the biggest club in the district”. With a great will power and new ideas, the club merges with...the rival club, the "Canon 13". In 2016, The "AS EVA Sport" club changes its name: “Jeunesse Sportive de Tshangu” (Tshangu's Sports and Youth).

Now, Makam has to manage the club. With many sacrifices and much ingenuity. Makam works in the transportation field, all the money he earns will be given to the club. Creative, full of energy and new ideas, he decides to make tracksuits with the club label "JST". Thanks to his personal network and the help of the dynamic diaspora of Congo in France, he manages to sell hundreds of tracksuits, and achieved 1,200 sales in 2017!

Stimulated by the great amount of sales, he gets in touch with Kipsta, Decathlon's football brand. “Many brands ask Decathlon for partnership, but Makam had such an interesting personal story, a great motivation, great ideas, that we accepted his request" said Grégory Volpi, product manager of Kipsta. In 2020 during the summer time, the partnership was signed. Today, adult and juniormembers of the club wear the whole Kipstaequipment Kipsta has helped develop a digital store to sell the "JST" equipment.

Makam's project grows, but there is a long way before he can achieve his dream : to play in League 1, be part of the African League, the clubs World Cup, build a stadium, and even a training center for young players “to play in the best European clubs.” For now, the "JST" is playing in the "Martyrs stadium", the national team stadium, for 80,000 people, while they have 3,000 supporters. When you tell him he is too ambitious, that his goal is unreal, Makam says: “I always reach for the stars!”