Kicking on in Denmark
“I DON’T WANT TO BE ON THE LIST TO FILL UP THE NUMBERS. I WANT TO BE ON THAT LIST BECAUSE I DESERVE TO BE ON THAT LIST.”
KICK OFF: Let’s take things back. You grew up in New Zealand, how did the move to Bidvest Wits come about for you?
Liam Jordan: The essence of it was that myself and my mother had been planning to move back to South Africa in 2013. The move was almost imminent in our heads and all we needed was myself to be set up football-wise. I had a contact at the time, who was in touch with [Bidvest] Wits and I was in touch with them for a while before that. Obviously not having any experience professionally before that, it was a bit of a risk but it paid off in the end because I knew I was always going to play football, so it was also the faith of that and believing in myself, coming to South Africa. I trained at Wits for two days and then after that, they took me in. I was training with the Under-19s when I first got to Wits, and after two days, Gavin [Hunt] said, ‘He must come with us [the first team]’. I was 15-years-old at the time.
What did that feel like, being drafted into the first-team set-up so quickly?
As a kid, I was always very confident, I’m still confident, but as a youngster, I was probably
