The final whistle in the match between Bloemfontein Celtic and AmaZulu at Sisa Dukashe Stadium, as well as the Black Leopards-Cape Town City encounter played at Thohoyandou Stadium, brought the curtain down on two illustrious local soccer careers.
The matches were the swansong for Siyabonga “Bhele” Nomvethe and Teko “The General” Modise, respectively.Born Siyabonga Eugene Nomvethe on December 2 1977 and baptised Bhele by the football-loving fraternity, Nomvethe had humble beginnings playing for local sides Sabatha FC and Durban Cosmos before moving to Claremont Blizzards.
He scored the game’s only goal against Slovenia at the 2002 World Cup, represented Bafana Bafana at the 2005 Gold Cup and the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. In July 2006, he joined Aalborg Boldspilklub in the Danish Superliga, where he spent three years, won the Danish Superliga 2007/08 championship and scored a goal in the penalty shoot-out as AaB was eliminated by Manchester City in the Uefa Cup 2008/09 round of 16.
Born in Meadowlands, Soweto, on December 22 1982, Teko Tsholofelo Modise is regarded as one of the greatest PSL players of his generation. Life has not always been a bed of roses for the genius, as captured in his biography, The Curse of Teko Modise. With 66 appearances for Bafana Bafana, for whom he scored 10 times, playing overseas must be the only box that he did not tick in his successful football career.
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