Teko Modise - Discover what is within you

Teko Modise - Discover what is within you
Author: Jay Heale
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143527207

Benni loves football and dreams of playing for his school side. When he finds out that the great Teko Modise, one of his favourite players, used to play on the same field as his school's team, he starts to find out more about the life of one of Bafana Bafana's best players.

Kaizer Motaung - Pursue your dreams

Kaizer Motaung - Pursue your dreams
Author: Jay Heale
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143527010

Mvusi has to research a famous South African for a school project and decides on Kaizer Motaung, the man who started Kaizer Chiefs. Follow Mvusi as he learns more about the history of soccer, the dark days of apartheid and the life of the man who was an international soccer star and then went on to form the biggest soccer team in Africa.

Steven Pienaar - The World is Watching

Steven Pienaar - The World is Watching
Author: Lesley Beake
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143527169

Mabhuti lives in the Cape and loves watching Bafana Bafana, especially his favourite player, Steven Pienaar. He dreams of one day also playing for the national team so he starts a training diary to help him reach his goal. Along the way he learns more about the life of his hero and all the hard work that goes into being a professional soccer player.

Lucas Radebe - The Chief

Lucas Radebe - The Chief
Author: Lesley Beake
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143527045

Khwezi idolises Lucas Radebe and keeps photos and news clippings of him in a scrapbook. After her uncle buys her a computer she uses the Internet to search for more information about her favourite soccer star. This is the story of Khwezi's quest to find out more about the life of one of South Africa's greatest ever soccer players.

The Curse of Teko Modise

The Curse of Teko Modise
Author: Nikolaos Kirkinis
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017
Genre: Biographies
ISBN: 9781431425761

Teko 'the General' Modise is one of the best footballers South Africa has ever produced. But life wasn't always kind. At eight years old, Teko was kicked out of his home for the very thing that would catapult him to stardom - football. After a series of contractual battles that saw him passed from team to team in Limpopo, he got his big break when he was signed to SuperSport United, a premier-league team. At the height of his career he played for the Orlando Pirates, becoming the superstar of South African football. His downward spiral came when he went through a messy and public divorce and developed a nasty drinking habit. It was at this stage that Teko was approached by a powerful medicine man, a king from the Congo. This story tells it all, from poverty to fame, from love to divorce. It is the story of a fatherless father trying to make sense of parenthood and a man who never had money trying to make sense of an abundance of wealth and the evils it brings, all the while maintaining his status as the greatest South African footballer of the modern era.

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Total Pages: 1006
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Africa
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The Football Trials: Game Changer

The Football Trials: Game Changer
Author: John Hickman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1472944178

Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language. Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font and illustrations, The Football Trials is aimed at readers aged 12+ and has a manageable length (80 pages) and reading age (9+). Produced in association with reading experts at Catch Up, a charity which aims to address underachievement caused by literacy and numeracy difficulties. This exciting coming of age story follows a boy from a tower block as he joins a premier league football academy. Jackson is surprised when he gets a call-up to play with United's under-eighteen team, and when everyone starts raving about his playing. But he's in for an even bigger shock when his dad turns up on his doorstep for the first time in years. Can they repair their relationship? Or is his dad out for what he can get? Book band: Brown

More than Rugby

More than Rugby
Author: Pierre Spies
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0143528955

You might never play rugby again.' Everything that I had done for the largest part of my life had been centred around rugby, so you can imagine the shock I experienced on hearing that. But if you thought that was bad - there's more. The doctor went on to say that I could even die. That was the truly devastating part! From being on cloud nine - selected for the Springbok squad to go to the World Cup - I had been hit with shattering news that was more than enough to knock the wind out of my sails. I couldn't believe it - just when my career was beginning to soar. Being a top scorer in the winning Super 14 team, giving great performances in the Tri Nations and against England at Loftus, getting selected into the Springbok squad for the World Cup - and now this? These are the words of Pierre Spies, capped as a Springbok aged 21 only to be told a year later that he may never play rugby again. In More than Rugby, Spies, one of the most imposing and explosive loose forwards that South Africa has ever produced, shares his own story for the first time: his family life, his numerous sporting triumphs, and his faith. Much more than a sports biography, this is the moving, personal story behind the well-loved 'No. 8' of South African rugby. With a Foreword by Victor Matfield and contributions from Morné Steyn, Bryan Habana and Juan Smith.