Mpho Moletsane

Goalkeeper - Afrique Foot Elite
18 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Mpho Moletsane

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The Afrique Foot Elite Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mpho Moletsane decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for Afrique Foot Elite

A 0‑0 win over AS Korofina, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

4 matches without a win for Afrique Foot Elite

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Afrique Foot Elite are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Shadrack Kobedi was immovable

23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

Words at Afrique Foot Elite training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shaka Zulu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sbusiso Mtshali

Marked 8.88 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mpho Moletsane

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

No hiding place for Alex Leyi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alex Leyi, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Shaka Zulu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief