Bongani Lorch

Goalkeeper - BKMA
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bongani Lorch

9 Edition

The BKMA Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Michel Ayvazyan damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at BKMA

Argishti Petrosyan 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

Real improvement from Bongani Lorch at BKMA

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bongani Lorch is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

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8 Edition

The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bloemfontein Celtic

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Gift Mothiba raises the bar for Bloemfontein Celtic

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bloemfontein Celtic heard it as anything else.

Player ratings

Percy Jali has a hand in both — 7.96

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.96, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic

Sifiso Mothiba 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Williams Zwane

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Percy Jali the difference as Bloemfontein Celtic beat Maritzburg United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Percy Jali. 2‑1 against Maritzburg United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Rivaldo Coetzee gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Dumisani Zuma in the eights

A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words at Bloemfontein Celtic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronwen Ngcobo 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.

In brief