Morena Ramoreboli

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Morena Cuthbert Moreboli
Personal information
Place of birth Rosendal, Free State
Team information
Current team
Jwaneng Galaxy
Managerial career
YearsTeam
January 2013- December 2014 Maluti FET College
December 2014- October 2015 African Warriors
August 2021- Jwaneng Galaxy
2021 South Africa (caretaker)
2023 [1] South Africa (caretaker)

Morena Ramoreboli is a South African manager who currently manages Botswana Premier League side Jwaneng Galaxy Football Club. [2] [3] [4]

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Career

He first emerged in 2013 when leading third tier Maluti FET College to victory over Orlando Pirates in the 2012–13 Nedbank Cup.

He later took over as caretaker coach of the South Africa national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, and led them to the 2021 COSAFA Cup title. [5] [6] [7]

After taking charge of Jwaneng Galaxy, he led them to the group stages of the African Champions League for the first time in 2021–22. [3]

Galaxy failed to defend their title in 2021–22, but won again in 2022–23 to qualify for the 2023–24 CAF Champions League. They knocked out the 1995 champions, South Africa's Orlando Pirates, in the qualifying rounds to again make the group stages, where they proceeded to shock another three-time African champion, Morocco's Wydad AC, 1-0. [8]

Honours

National

Club

Champion: 2022–23, [10] 2023–24

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