‘I still judge myself on goals’
KICK OFF: Where did your football journey begin?
LEHLOHONOLO MAJORO: With my Dad because he also played football, together with my uncles. I started at a young age. I don’t think many people know that I was also part of the Under-15 Nike tournament and the Transnet Under-14 tournament for the Eastern Free State team. I’ve been playing competitive football from an early age, even though I’ve never been to a proper development school, but I managed to soldier through and finally make it to PSL. I think we all know that when you come from a rural area, opportunities are few and it’s a pretty difficult journey to make it, in all industries, be it education or top sport.
You are one of few footballers to study at university and still go on and play professionally …
Education is what led me to my first PSL contract, in the sense of, in 2005, I went and studied at the University of the Free State, where I played varsity football. We went to the inter-varsity tournament and from there University of Johannesburg offered me a sports bursary, and in 2007 I went there to study radiography. I was there for three years. It was at the very same intervarsity tournament in Durban where coach Manqoba Mngqithi saw me and asked me to come and train with Golden Arrows. And that’s how I signed for AmaZulu, because just afterwards he went there.
