FUTURE South African soccer superstar Brogan Sanders left for the UK yesterday to sculpt a career at the academy of a top British first division club.
It is rumoured that the club is Liverpool.
Sanders joins several aspirants who have gained wings from the country's arguably biggest education through sport venture, Dettol Shona Khona.
Since 2005, the project - whose proud media and nation-building partner is Sowetan - has been taking 12 talented girls and boys not older than 16 to Brazil and England for potentially life-changing soccer coaching and life skills training sessions at top world famous soccer clubs' academies.
Of these, one Brazil-based Tyroane Sandows is reportedly so impressive that he is about to break into the professional setup of Sao Paulo FC.
Other proud successes include Kaylin Swart, who is part of the ladies under-17 national team, Sifiso Mnguni, who is in the youth ranks of Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars; Samkelo Qwabe, Julien de Freitas and Sibusiso Ngwenya who are in the Premier Soccer League team Bidvest Wits's youth academy; and the Safa-Transnet Soccer School of Excellence-based threesome of Kwanele Msibi, Tumisho Morerwa and Godfrey Molemela.
Teen's soccer dream fulfilled
FUTURE South African soccer superstar Brogan Sanders left for the UK yesterday to sculpt a career at the academy of a top British first division club.
It is rumoured that the club is Liverpool.
Sanders joins several aspirants who have gained wings from the country's arguably biggest education through sport venture, Dettol Shona Khona.
Since 2005, the project - whose proud media and nation-building partner is Sowetan - has been taking 12 talented girls and boys not older than 16 to Brazil and England for potentially life-changing soccer coaching and life skills training sessions at top world famous soccer clubs' academies.
Of these, one Brazil-based Tyroane Sandows is reportedly so impressive that he is about to break into the professional setup of Sao Paulo FC.
Other proud successes include Kaylin Swart, who is part of the ladies under-17 national team, Sifiso Mnguni, who is in the youth ranks of Premier Soccer League club Platinum Stars; Samkelo Qwabe, Julien de Freitas and Sibusiso Ngwenya who are in the Premier Soccer League team Bidvest Wits's youth academy; and the Safa-Transnet Soccer School of Excellence-based threesome of Kwanele Msibi, Tumisho Morerwa and Godfrey Molemela.
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