Bamuza Sono
| Bamuza Sono | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Eric "Scara" Bamuza Sono | |
| birthday | March 21, 1980 | |
| place of birth | Johannesburg , South Africa | |
| size | 176 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Witwatersrand University | ||
| Jomo Cosmos | ||
| 1997-1998 | → SC Austria Lustenau (loan) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999– | Jomo Cosmos | 292 (6) |
| 2009 | → Maccabi Netanja (loan) | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| South Africa U-17 | ||
| South Africa U-20 | ||
| 2007 | South Africa | 4 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2013/14 |
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Eric "Scara" Bamuza Sono (born March 21, 1980 in Johannesburg ) is a South African football player on the position of midfielder . He currently plays for Jomo Cosmos in the Premier Soccer League (PSL), the top division of South African football.
Career
Youth and club career
Sono began his active professional career as a football player at Witwatersrand University based in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province . He was active there for a few years, but then switched to the offspring of Jomo Cosmos , where his father, Jomo Sono , has been the owner and head coach for many years. Bamuza Sono later moved to Austria to the professional club SC Austria Lustenau based in Vorarlberg . In the state, however, the young South African was only used in the youth of the club, failed to make the leap into the professional squad and then returned to his home country.
There he made his team debut before moving to Europe, when he played a Mandela Cup match in a 3-0 win over the Eleven Men in Flight from Swaziland in March 1997 . Since returning home in 1999, Sono has been playing regularly in his father's club, so although he only played three championship games in his first season, he made 19 league appearances in the following season. Sono celebrated his greatest successes with his club in 2002 and 2005, when the Coca-Cola Cup was won after good performances . In 2003 the team celebrated winning the SAA Supa 8 with the participation of Sonos . A personal success for Sono, however, was the election as the “best midfielder of the PSL” in the 2006/07 season.
In addition to the league events, Bamuza Sono also took part in tournaments and cup competitions for his team. Among other things, these were the Coppa Carnevale in Italy in 2000 and 2001 and the Prince Abdullah Cup in the Arab world. In two years (1997 and 2003) the midfielder was also in action for his team in the African Cup Winners' Cup , which at that time was still being played under the name Mandela Cup .
At the beginning of 2008 it was announced that the midfielder would move to Israel to Maccabi Netanja in June of the same year . When the change didn't work out for the time being, Sono only switched to the Ligat ha'Al , the highest football league in Israeli football, on loan at the beginning of the following year .
In the summer of 2009 he returned to South Africa to join his father's club. To date, Sono has made a total of 292 league appearances and six goals for Jomo Cosmos.
International
Sono was an active U-17 international for South Africa in his youth . Later he was part of the U-20 selection of his home country and was finally appointed to the squad of the senior national team in 2007 . There he made his debut on September 24, 2007, when he was used in the semi-final of the COSAFA Cup 2007 against the Botswana national team . In the final, South Africa beat Zambia 4-3 on penalties; Sono was in use until the 70th minute of the game.
successes
- 1 × SAA Supa 8 winner: 2003
- 2 × Coca-Cola Cup winners: 2002, 2005
- best PSL midfielder: 2006/07
- COSAFA Senior Challenge winner: 2007
Web links
- Player profile on the official homepage of Jomo Cosmos (English)
- 2. Player profile on the official homepage of Jomo Cosmos (English)
- Player profile on the official PSL homepage (English)
- Player profile at football365.co.za (English)
Footnotes + individual references
- ^ Mandela Cup 1997 (English), accessed on January 7, 2010
- ↑ Bamuza Sono deal signed ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 7, 2010
- ↑ Sono's son in South Africa squad , accessed on January 7, 2010
- ↑ COSAFA-Cup 2007 (English), accessed on January 7, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sono, Bamuza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sono, Eric Bamuza (full name); Scara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg , South Africa |