It was on 21 April 2015, when Botlhale Wisdom Mosheou lost his father at age 49 who thrilled fans with his wizardry at Kaizer Chiefs and at Bafana Bafana who tragedy met his death from complications in his battle with cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To mark this landmark birthday Botlhale took to Instagram where he paid a touching tribute to his late father who is one of the most talented attacking midfielders who ever donned the jersey of Kaizer Chiefs and who was part of the 1996 Bafana Bafana AFCON winning squad.

What’s the story?

On Sunday, Botlhale Mosheou took to his Instagram account where he shared a poster he created where his late father was captured during his playing days at Bafana Bafana where he was wearing his legendary jersey number 10 and where he was captured wearing his off the field gear.

As part of his caption Motlhale wrote, “Just a lil tribute I did for my paps. Remembering the legendary Shhhoooooeees”.

In other news…

On the football front, the former Kaizer Chiefs jersey number 10 who became synonymous with the colours of the Naturena based outfit and those of Bafana Bafana during his illustrious career which spanned for over two decades plied his trade atleast in six different teams before announcing his retirement from the sport in 2014.

According to his player profile on 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘵, the former Kaizer Chiefs attacking midfielder who could play as a central midfielder and as a defensive midfielder also plied his trade at Genclerbirligi, Kocaelispor, Fenerbahce, Bursaspor, AmaZulu and at Alexandra United

Did you know?

According to the same source mentioned above, John Mosheou earned 73 Bafana Bafana international caps during his playing days in the national team setup of South Africa where he rattled the back of the net eight times.