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Sipho Chaine
Sipho Chaine (born 14 December 1996) is a South African soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates in the South African Premier Division and the South Africa national team. Club career Chaine played for Bloemfontein Celtic, among others in the Diski Challenge Shield, and was drafted into the senior team. He made his first-tier debut in May 2019 in a 3-1 win against Amazulu FC, in what would be his only appearance for the season. He would get more minutes in the 2020/2021 season, where he made a total of 15 appearances accorss all competitions for Bloemfontein Celtic. When Royal AM bought the status of Bloemfontein Celtic, Chaine continued in that team, but barely saw any playing time. In the summer of 2022, Chaine signed for Chippa United. After only two appearances for Chippa United, Chaine was signed in September 2022, on the last day of the transfer window, by major club Orlando Pirates. He started as a third choice behind Richard Ofori and Siyabonga Mp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Nedbank Cup
The 2023–24 Nedbank Cup was the 2023–24 edition of South Africa's premier knockout club football (soccer) competition, the Nedbank Cup. It was the 52nd season of the competition, and 17th under its current sponsor. It was won by defending champions Orlando Pirates F.C., Orlando Pirates, who defeated Mamelodi Sundowns F.C., Mamelodi Sundowns 2–1 in the final. Since both teams qualified for the 2024–25 CAF Champions League through their league position, the cup didn't grant any continental qualification, and the final slot for the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup was taken by the fourth-placed team in the league, Sekhukhune United F.C., Sekhukhune United. Participating teams Teams After a preliminary round featuring eight games between teams from the National First Division and eight games from the SAFA Second Division, the 16 winners joined the 16 teams from the South African Premiership, Premiership to enter the main draw. Preliminary round SAFA Second Division team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa Men's International Soccer Players
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
