Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kgaogelo Rathete Sekgota | ||
Date of birth | 22 June 1997 | ||
Place of birth | Seshego, South Africa [1] | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Youth career | |||
2012–2017 | Polokwane United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2019 | Stumbras | 30 | (2) |
2019–2020 | Vitória | 7 | (0) |
2020– | Bidvest Wits | 12 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Moroka Swallows | 24 | (3) |
2021–2023 | Kaizer Chiefs | 42 | (0) |
2023–2024 | Stellenbosch | 12 | (0) |
2024–2025 | Magesi Polokwane | 8 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2019– | South Africa | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 March 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 August 2023 |
Kgaogelo Rathete Sekgota (born 22 June 1997), [3] nicknamed Kigi, is a South African soccer player who plays as a winger. [4]
Former Kaizer Chiefs player enters a rehab alongside former Mamelodi Sundowns player Chabangu and other player. [5]
Sekgota is a youth product of the academy of Polokwane United, having joined in 2012. [6] Sekgota began his senior career with the Lithuanian club Stumbras in 2017, and moved to Vitória in January 2019. [7] Sekgota made his professional debut for Vitória in a 2-0 Primeira Liga loss to FC Porto on 16 February 2019.
Sekgota returned to South Africa and joined Bidvest Wits on 17 January 2020. [8] He was announced as new Kaizer Chiefs player following the upliftment of the team transfer ban on 9 July 2021. [9]
Kaizer Chiefs confirmed the release on Kgaogelo on 1 August 2023 to Stellenbosch FC. [10]
He made his South Africa national football team debut on 4 June 2019, in a 2019 COSAFA Cup plate semi-final against Uganda, as a 73rd-minute substitute for Kamohelo Mahlatsi. [11]
Stumbras
Individual