Étoile du Congo is a Congolese professional football club based in Brazzaville.

The team, known at the time as Renaissance, won the Brazzaville city championship each year from 1945 to 1950 led by team-captain Dominique Sombo.

In 1951, the players decided to write to the Director of Social Services to request to leave the mission and to be sponsored by a cultural center.

After threatening to boycott colonial administrators assuaged their demands to avoid popular outcry.

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