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The most amazing player

For as long as he remembers, Andries Mosehle has been ridiculed for being the footballer with one arm, but yet he was been able to play competitive football for close to a dozen years, spending a quarter of that time in the National First Division.

While most able-bodied players don’t make the cut in professional football, Mosehle was a one-armed wonder who never felt he could not take up the challenge of competing like everyone else on the pitch.

Mosehle was born on the last day of June in 1990 in Brits, North West, but suffered the misfortune of having his left arm amputated before celebrating his second birthday after a freak accident.

“I was run over by a car when I was 18 months old, so I don’t even remember when I had both arms,” he says.

“I was told that my mom was going somewhere so she thought she could sneak out quickly without me seeing her, but then I saw her and followed her outside the gate of our yard. As I came outside a car came speeding.

“By the time the driver braked, the wheels were already on my arm ad about to

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