Jody Jason February (born 12 May 1996) is a South African

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who plays as a

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for

Mamelodi Sundowns Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club (simply known as Sundowns) is a South African professional football club based in Mamelodi, Pretoria in the Gauteng province that plays in the Premiership, the first tier of South African football league syste ...

. He was born in

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

Club career

February started his career at

Ajax Cape Town Cape Town Spurs F.C. (formerly known as Ajax Cape Town) is a South African professional football club based in Parow in the city of Cape Town that plays in the National First Division. Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax was their parent club and ma ...

before signing for

in September 2019. He was loaned out to Cape Umoya United for the 2019–20 season. During the 2022-23 season, he was loaned out to

AmaZulu Zulu people (; ) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni people, Nguni. The Zulu people are the largest Ethnic groups in South Africa, ethnic group and nation in South Africa, living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. They o ...

International career

February played for the South Africa under-23 team at the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations. He was a part of the

South Africa national soccer team The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international association football, soccer and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for soccer in South Africa. Nicknamed Bafana Bafana (The ...

squad at the

2016 COSAFA Cup The 2016 COSAFA Cup (known as Castle Lager COSAFA Cup Namibia 2016 for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th edition of the COSAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of Southern Af ...

where he made one appearance, coming on at halftime in a 5–1 defeat of

Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...

. He represented South Africa in the football competition at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

References

1996 births Living people Soccer players from Cape Town Cape Coloureds South African men's soccer players Cape Town Spurs F.C. players Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players Cape Umoya United F.C. players Moroka Swallows F.C. players South African Premier Division players National First Division players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players for South Africa Men's association football goalkeepers South Africa men's youth international soccer players South Africa men's international soccer players 21st-century South African sportsmen {{SouthAfrica-footy-goalkeeper-stub