Kanalelo no longer with Sundowns

FORMER national football team goal minder Fillemon ‘Ronnie’ Kanalelo will no longer ply his trade at Pretoria based Premiership side Sundowns Football Club.

This emerged yesterday when club owner and mining magnate, Patrice Motsepe announced a number of new acquisitions, transfer-listed players as well as those whose contracts will not be extended. As widely speculated, Kanalelo is one of those who will not wear the Sundowns jersey when the 2004/05 South African season starts in August.Kanalelo joined Sundowns from Windhoek’s Black Africa in 1998 but for a large part of his tenure at the Pretoria club, he played second fiddle to John Tlale and then again to Andre Arendse.The writing was, however, on the wall for Kanalelo when former South Africa and Kaizer Chiefs keeper Brian Baloyi was lured to Sundowns by club boss Motsepe.Kanalelo, who also played for Walvis Bay’s Eleven Arrows before joining Black Africa, dropped a bombshell shortly after joining Sundowns when he traded his Namibian passport for a South African one.He argued at the time that the citizenship change was to enable him to play regularly for Sundowns.South African soccer laws require that a club only registers five foreigners and field only four of those at a time.Although it was not immediately clear what Kanalelo would do next, he might as well consider putting his recently-acquired coaching qualification to good use in Namibia.- NampaAs widely speculated, Kanalelo is one of those who will not wear the Sundowns jersey when the 2004/05 South African season starts in August.Kanalelo joined Sundowns from Windhoek’s Black Africa in 1998 but for a large part of his tenure at the Pretoria club, he played second fiddle to John Tlale and then again to Andre Arendse.The writing was, however, on the wall for Kanalelo when former South Africa and Kaizer Chiefs keeper Brian Baloyi was lured to Sundowns by club boss Motsepe.Kanalelo, who also played for Walvis Bay’s Eleven Arrows before joining Black Africa, dropped a bombshell shortly after joining Sundowns when he traded his Namibian passport for a South African one.He argued at the time that the citizenship change was to enable him to play regularly for Sundowns.South African soccer laws require that a club only registers five foreigners and field only four of those at a time.Although it was not immediately clear what Kanalelo would do next, he might as well consider putting his recently-acquired coaching qualification to good use in Namibia.- Nampa