Tshepang Moremi #8

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Fast and direct, Moremi’s nickname is “Rea Vaya”, colloquial Sesotho for “we are going”. His end product and overall consistency are still issues for the 25-year-old, but he has grown to become a valuable part of his club Pirates’ successes, and a solid option for Hugo Broos with South Africa. Moremi’s career really took off with AmaZulu where he was promoted from the reserves by South African legend Benni McCarthy, who was coaching the club at the time. “Benni McCarthy is the one legend I look up to,” he says. His first love as a boy, though, was sprinting, and, aged just 11, he broke his school’s 100m record. Coach Motsamai Motsepe recalled last year how he had to step in and meet Moremi’s mother and the school principal to convince them to let him play football too, having spotted him leaving defenders for dead in a local kickabout: “He was raw but lightning fast, and left-footed too,” Motsepe told FarPost. “I told his mother I’d guide him. I saw something special.”

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