The year 1963, attending Zonnebloem Boys School in District Six, Cape Town. The school had quite a good crop of soccer players. At that time I represented the school in the under 11 age group.
We played our soccer at the Green Point Common. That's where the Cape Town Stadium is now situated.
On a particular Tuesday afternoon we were challenging another school. Little did we know that the representatives of Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club (London, U.K.) were spectators. The Spurs team had visited the country that year and played friendlies against the local pro-teams.
The following day at school the sports master came around to the classroom with a list of the players to go for trials with Spurs. I was one of the lucky ones.
Thinking that I wouldn't make the grade, I didn't attend the trials.
Now, if I had known I wouldn't FAIL, I probably would've been a full time professional player in England today.
'Nuff said !!!!!
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