Retired Teko Modise set for office job at City

Modise retired from the game after making his last appearance for City in their last league game of the 2018/19 season against Black Leopards last weekend.

Club chairman John Comitis has revealed that he has been talking to Modise about what he will do after retirement.

“What was clear from our discussions with Teko over the last couple of months is that players finish their careers and the only thing people think they can do thereafter is to be a coach. And if they don’t succeed at that‚ then they are pretty much in a very difficult financial situation and struggling to maintain the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to‚ through their sheer brilliance,” Comitis was quoted by TimesLIVE.

“To be in a position to go from sheer brilliance to struggling to put food on the table‚ in some instances‚ it’s not surprising that you see some of our boys take the wrong road. But Teko made it very clear: ‘I can coach‚ I know the game well enough‚ and I can go and do all the badges and all that‚ but what’s my statement about footballers in this country?

“Is that all we are? Can we not amount to something more than that?

“Do we not have a place in the infrastructure of football when modern day football requires modern day thinking?

“I’m here to serve the game in more ways than just being a coach’.”

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