Dikembe Mutombo was born June 25 1966 at Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mutombo grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor and he was very smart with mastering nine different languages. The encouragement of his Father and Brother, the quickly growing Mutombo took up basketball at the age of 16. His past interest in sport was Soccer and martial arts reduces his change from one thing to another in the new sport. Mutombo moved to Washington D.C in 1987 to attend Georgetown University on a related to school are learning action of accomplishing something challenging. Mutombo has not must interest when he arrived on campus. Mutombo caught the attention of famous legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson to play basketball for his University.