It was third time on the trot that the Masandawana shot-stopper featured in the continent’s best XI, and he wants his achievement to inspire goal-minders and all footballers across the continent.
“It will inspire a lot of goalkeeper because I have managed to compete with the best players on the continent and I have been recognized for the hard work. It shows that when you work hard on the field,” said Onyango.
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“It has not been an easy journey for me from where I started up to now. I look at the issues of being focused and working hard because I would have given up by the time I wasn’t playing at Sundowns because I only played four games in two years and going out on loan wasn’t easy,” the 33-year-old said, recalling the days when he was a benchwarmer.
“I believed in what I was doing, I had hope and stayed focused on my career and that is the only thing that I had to do because there was no other job to do than to play football.”
He added: “Youngsters out there must know that life is not going to be easy, you need to be patient and associate yourself with the right people and give your best all the time and things will fall your way. That is what happened to me in the past two years and it is a lesson to everyone that nothing comes easy.”
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