Teboho Modiba

Right Wingback - Black Aces
17 Sep 2026
Thursday
Process

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The Black Aces Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Black Aces bow out of the cup

Kaizer Chiefs go through and Black Aces go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Sifiso Mahlangu is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Sifiso Mahlangu: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings

Kermit Ngcobo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Teboho Modiba puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Black Aces, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlo De Luca 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.

Match

Black Aces come up short against Maritzburg United

Maritzburg United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Lebogang Tau misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Squad

No hiding place for Kermit Ngcobo

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

Squad

Ramahlwe Mphela left out for tactical reasons at Black Aces

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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The Black Aces Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Hearts of Oak come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Black Aces did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eyes on Thamsanqa Mothiba again

The phone has started ringing about Thamsanqa Mothiba again, and this time the name on the line is Heracles. Black Aces are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Teboho Modiba hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Black Aces can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Black Aces

Mandla Phiri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Carlo De Luca falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

No place for Lebogang Modiba in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lebogang Modiba has his answer from Black Aces; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief