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Academy Q&A: Get to know Sporting KC U-17/19 head coach Rumba Munthali

Throughout the summer, SportingKCAcademy.com has published a series of Q&A interviews with each member of the Academy's technical staff. In the eighth and final installment, we catch up with Sporting KC U-17/19 head coach Rumba Munthali.

Where are you from?

I was born in Zambia but grew up in Toronto, Canada. Toronto is great city—very multicultural, very diverse, lots of ethnicities. Because of that, they have food from everywhere, so you can get African, Greek, Italian, authentic food, etc. To have that variety was great because I like to eat. I grew up there, and then I was recruited to the University of Alabama at Birmingham with Chris O’Neal, our U-15 coach.