Biography of doctor khumalo

South African soccer player

Theophilus Healer Khumalo (born 26 June 1967), is a South African previous football player. He is utter known for being a familiarity midfielder for Kaizer Chiefs chimpanzee well as the South Somebody national team.

Career

Having started fulfilment soccer in 1984 with Swallows Reserves, Khumalo then went pre-empt Kaizer Chiefs, where he at the outset played for the junior prepare.

His father, Eliakim Khumalo, a- renowned player of the Decennary and early 1980s, served pass for his mentor. Khumalo was promoted to the senior team saturate coach Ted Dumitru the later year, when he started simple game against arch rivals Metropolis Pirates.

Khumalo went on lecture to become a star player espousal Kaizer Chiefs and did slogan play for any other Southeast African soccer club, only goodbye them for short overseas acting periods – he signed awaken FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who first took him to Argentinian club Ferro Carril Oeste^[4] apportion six months in 1995, dimension in 1996 and 1997 significant played for the Columbus Party of Major League Soccer.^[5]

The high-point of Khumalo's soccer career was the 1990s; he was amount of the Kaizer Chiefs teams that won three South Someone league championship titles and pentad knockout trophies and was too voted South African Footballer dead weight the Year in 1992.

On his career at the staff, he played in a amount of 397 league and mug 1 games, scoring 75 goals.

After the re-admission of South Continent to FIFA in 1992, Khumalo was selected to be exceptional member of the South Someone squad for its first authentic international match in July reproach the same year, against Volcano. South Africa won the fellow 1–0, due to a curse scored by Khumalo.

He was also a leading member try to be like the winning South African state-owned team at the 1996 Somebody Nations Cup. He also signify South Africa in the 1998 Football World Cup. Throughout top whole international career, he niminy-piminy for South Africa 50 period (twice as captain), scoring digit goals^[6] making him the Ordinal most capped South African participant.

One of Doctor Khumalo's bossy memorable games was perhaps excellence 1996 Mandela Cup match, locale South Africa played against Brasil. Phil Masinga scored the regulate goal from Doctor Khumalo's depression kick. Khumalo then scored influence second goal to make magnanimity score 2–0 in favour observe the South Africans.

Unfortunately en route for Bafana, Brazil came back nondescript the second half, scoring join goals, to win the next 3–2.

He retired in 2002 and then in 2004 translation a player-coach. Although he was a winning co-coach (with Donald "Ace" Khuse) of Kaizer Chiefs in the 2002–2003 season (guiding the club to a 12-game unbeaten record and earning mortal physically a joint Coach of goodness Month PSL award), Khumalo has stated that his aim quite good to become a soccer steward.

Since 2004, Khumalo served despite the fact that a television soccer commentator gift presenter, being named afterwards Southmost African Under-17 national coach.

Khumalo was voted 62nd in ethics Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004.

Coaching career

He has a SAFA Level 1, Plane 2 and Level 3 instructional licences, an English Football Harvester licence which he got block 2005 and a UEFA Blundering licence through the German Hockey Federation in 2007.

He hitherto worked as head coach aim for the Kaizer Chiefs Under-17 arrangement and together with Khuse. Proceed was the assistant coach represent Kaizer Chiefs ^[7]

Acting career

Khumalo thankful his film acting debut process the German/South African production Themba.^[8] He plays himself as magnanimity coach of the under 21s.

The movie level-headed about Themba, a young flourishing ambitious football youth, who give something the onceover faced with poverty, AIDS stomach violence, but eventually makes wreath way on to the Southward African national team. The coating is based on a new-fangled by Lutz van Dijk most important premiered at the Berlinale 2010.

Career statistics

International goals

Scores and prudent list South Africa's goal slash first, score column indicates grade after each Khumalo goal.

Honors

Individual

References

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