A key player for Roan United, he led the club to the Zambian league title in its inaugural season in 1962 and was one of the men behind the team's fluid style of play, being involved in various coaching roles.
[2] The family moved to Luanshya when he was four months old though his parents divorced not long afterwards and his mother later married Pensulo Mwaba, a first-aid instructor at Roan Antelope Mine's Shaft number 14 in, whose name he adopted.
[1][3] When Pensulo and his mother moved to Roan Antelope Mine township to join his step father, he started playing football on the streets with other boys in the neighbourhood using tennis balls or balls made from rags, and when youth competitions were introduced between the various sections in the mine townships he began harbouring ambitions of playing for the Roan Antelope and Northern Rhodesia football teams.
[2][3] Pensulo attended Central and Roan schools but only as far as what was then Standard Four, owing to lack of support from his parents so he concentrated on playing football.
In 1960, he joined Ndola Black Follies but only spent four months there and was enticed back to Roan by Evans, who offered him a job in the mines as a Welfare Assistant.
With former Portuguese international Tony Castella as player-coach, who Pensulo later described as ‘the best coach the country ever had,’ Roan won the league championship and the Castle Cup, beating Nchanga Sports 4–3 in the final.
He announced his retirement at the end of the 1970 season, as he felt he was growing old and was stepping back in order to give chance to young players.
[1] Newspaper stories of boxers dying in the ring had strengthened his resolve to focus on the word of God and he became a part-time lay preacher with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Luanshya.
The match took place in Mufulira which was a political hotbed at the time, and was played under maximum security because ANC cadres had planned to disrupt the game.
Pensulo had a good game, scoring the only goal of the match to the applause of the predominantly white crowd and afterwards, the Mufulira manager requested him to remain behind for a surprise that turned out to be a large slice of roast pork but he was too shy to eat and ended up taking it home with him.
[5] In 1957, Pensulo attended trials and attracted the attention of selectors for the Copperbelt African side, which was a representative of Northern Rhodesia as a whole at the time.
[7] He also featured strongly in the final game against Malawi, as Jackie Sewell’s hat-trick and Willie Kunda's brace led Northern Rhodesia to the trophy with a 5-0 victory.
[7][8] Later in October of the same year, he featured for Zambia in the country’s independence tournament where they lost all their games against Kenya and Uganda and a second string Ghanaian side, which proved too strong and easily won the trophy.
In June 1967, while playing against the touring John Charles XI, Pensulo suffered a knee injury, which dogged him throughout the remaining years of his career.
The trio oversaw Roan's return to the Super Division in 2007 but Pensulo fell out of favour with the establishment because of his absence from the team on Fridays and Saturdays due to him observing the Sabbath, and was relieved of his duties.