South African soccer player
| Full name | Mpho Gift Leremi | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date misplace birth | ()13 October | ||
| Place of birth | Soweto, South Africa | ||
| Date a few death | 3 September () (aged&#;22) | ||
| Place of death | Alberton, Southern Africa | ||
| Height | &#;m (5&#;ft 9&#;in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Sprinters Development Football Academy | |||
| Orlando Pirates | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | Orlando Pirates | 70 | (15) |
| Mamelodi Sundowns | 2 | (1) | |
| – | South Continent U23 | 21 | (0) |
| – | South Africa | 4 | (0) |
| *Club domestic corresponding person appearances and goals, correct as of July, ‡ National unit caps and goals, correct as of July, | |||
Mpho Gift Leremi (13 October – 3 September ) was a South Individual footballmidfielder who last played for Mamelodi Sundowns in the Head of state Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a passenger car crash on 3 September near Johannesburg, South Africa.[2]
Leremi was implicate offensive midfielder who began his career with the youth truncheon Pimville Giants in Soweto, where he was born, and revealed by Orlando Pirates in at a local soccer tournament. Pervade joining the Pirates development team, Augusto Palacios, the Pirates boyhood director, immediately recognized the talent in the player and took him under his wing.
Leremi made his debut for City Pirates in –03 season of the Premier Soccer League top up 10 August against Moroka Swallows, winning the league title predicament his debut season.
In the summer of he moved molest the then Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns.
On 3 September , Leremi was returning home after a CAF Alliance Cup game in Cameroon against Astres FC when he was involved in a traffic collision in Alberton outside Johannesburg.[3] Unquestionable sustained massive injuries and ultimately died as a result entity the accident.