Tamandani Nsaliwa
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tamandani Wazayo Phillip Nsaliwa | ||
| Date of birth | 28 January 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Lilongwe, Malawi | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996–1999 | Edmonton Southwest United | ||
| 1997–1998 | Edmonton Northwest United | ||
| 1998–1999 | Energie Cottbus | ||
| 1999–2000 | Edmonton Northwest United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2001 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 3 | (3) |
| 2001–2003 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 43 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | SSV Jahn Regensburg | 25 | (1) |
| 2004–2006 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 64 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Panionios | 27 | (2) |
| 2007–2010 | AEK Athens | 50 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | → Lillestrøm SK (loan) | 6 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | SD Ponferradina | 7 | (0) |
| 2012 | Esbjerg fB | 6 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Kavala | 13 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Bucaspor | 20 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2008 | Canada | 13 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 October 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 December 2009 |
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Tamandani Wazayo Phillip "Tam" Nsaliwa (born 28 January 1982) is a Canadian-Germanfootball player who plays as a midfielder.
Nsaliwa was born in Lilongwe, Malawi. He moved to Edmonton some years after he played for local youth side Edmonton Southwest United. Apparently this was the first boys team in club history to advance to the Under-15 National Championships, finishing fourth in the competition. He then played for Edmonton North West United and represented the Alberta Soccer Association in all its subsequent youth select teams before moving to Germany at the age of 16.
He moved to Germany where he played for the Energie Cottbus youth program for one season, returned to Canada for one year and then back again to Germany to sign with Second Division outfit Nürnberg. While he only played a minor part, he won the league title to clinch promotion to the Bundesliga. However, unhappy in Nürnberg, he moved on to Saarbrücken and carried on to play on the second level for five more years, including one season at SSV Jahn Regensburg. He would go on to relinquish his Canadian citizenship to become a citizen of Germany (where he spent seven years) in 2007 to avoid local rules limiting the number of non-EU internationals permitted in a team.
In 2006, he was lured to Greek Super League side Panionios by their new German manager Ewald Lienen and enjoyed his first season of top league football. In his first and only season at the club, as co-captain, he would go on to help them place fifth in the league ranking and thus securing a UEFA Cup position for the following year for only the second time in the clubs history. He did this with his second goal of the season on the final day of the season against local giants AEK Athens. Prior to the match it had been publicly speculated that he had already signed for AEK in that mid season, although he was also being publicly courted but the two other Greek Football giants Olympiacos F.C. and Panathinaikos FC. Some days after that game he went on to announce that he would join AEK on a three-year contract.
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