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Bundesliga club Stuttgart: Congolese attacker Wamangituka has been playing under false identity

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Stuttgart top scorer Wamangituka reveals real name, age-club [photo courtesy]

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.

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