Siphiwe Tshabalala
| Siphiwe Tshabalala | ||
 Siphiwe Tshabalala (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Lawrence Siphiwe Tshabalala | |
| birthday | September 25, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Soweto , South Africa | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| -2004 | Alexandra United | 26 (7) |
| 2004-2007 | Free State Stars | 64 (13) |
| 2007-2018 | Kaizer Chiefs | 287 (45) |
| 2018-2020 | BB Erzurumspor | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2006-2014 | South Africa | 90 (12) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of September 5, 2018 |
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Lawrence Siphiwe Tshabalala (born September 25, 1984 in Soweto ) is a South African football player . The midfielder was most recently under contract with the Turkish second division club BB Erzurumspor .
Club career
Tshabalala played until 2004 for the second division club Alexandra United , who missed the qualification for the newly created single-track second division in the 2003/04 season as penultimate of the season Inland Stream . Tshabalala then moved to the second division team Free State Stars , with whom he won the second division championship in the 2004/05 season and rose to the Premier Soccer League . The rise was followed by direct relegation as bottom of the table, but Tshabalala, who was mainly used on the left wing, stayed with Free Stars, although he was already a national player, and moved to the Kaizer Chiefs in January 2007 for an estimated 1.3 million rand .
Immediately after his move, a chronic knee injury forced him to take a six-month break from competition, and he was only able to make his debut for the Chiefs in the 2007/08 season. In the 2008/09 season he rose to the star player of his team and was named Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year within the club. With the Chiefs he has won the Telkom Knockout 2007 and the MTN 8 in 2008.
In August 2018, Tshabalala moved to Turkey to join BB Erzurumspor .
National team
Tshabalala was surprisingly appointed to the South African national team for the 2006 African Cup of Nations by coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and made his international debut shortly before the start of the tournament in a friendly against Egypt. In the final group game against Zambia, the winger was in the starting line-up for the first time, but the 1-0 defeat meant he was bottom of the group.
As a result, Tshabalala established himself as a regular for the national team and remained so even after his six-month injury break. At the African Cup of Nations in 2008 he was again part of the squad and came out to two missions in the renewed preliminary round. Parreira's successor, Joel Santana , called up Tshabalala for the 2009 Confederations Cup . In this tournament he was used in 4 games. In the first group game of the 2010 World Cup against Mexico , he scored the first goal of the tournament with a 1-1 draw and thus also the first World Cup goal in history on African soil. He was also in the starting line-up in the following two group matches against Uruguay and France , but could not prevent a World Cup host from being eliminated for the first time in the group stage.
successes
- Baymed Cup: 2006
- Mvela Golden League: 2004/05, 2006/07
- South African Cup Winner : 2008
- Footballer of the Year in South Africa : 2010
Web links
- Siphiwe Tshabalala in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Siphiwe Tshabalala in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ football365.co.za: Tshabalala: We'll play our way (May 15, 2009) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ nationscup.mtnfootball.com: Player Profile - Siphiwe Tshabalala ( 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.
- ↑ kickoff.co.za: Tshabalala cleans up at Chiefs (May 14, 2009) ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fifa.com Videos: All Goals, June 11, 2010, Siphiwe TSHABALALA (RSA)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tshabalala, Siphiwe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tshabalala, Lawrence Siphiwe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soweto |