Thendo Mukumela

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Thendo Mukumela
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-01-30) 30 January 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Limpopo, South Africa
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 AmaZulu
Youth career
0000–2018 Mamelodi Sundowns
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2022 Cape Town Spurs [lower-alpha 1] 90 (17)
2022– AmaZulu 0 (0)
International career‡
2015 South Africa U17 3 (1)
2017 South Africa U20 7 (0)
2019 South Africa U23 5 (1)
2017– South Africa 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:24, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:46, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Thendo Mukumela (born 30 January 1998) is a South African professional soccer player who plays for the South African soccer club AmaZulu and the South Africa national football team.

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Club career

Born in Limpopo, [1] South Africa, Mukumela started his career at Mamelodi Sundowns before joining Ajax Cape Town in 2018. [2] [3]

In June 2022, Mukumela joined AmaZulu. [4]

International career

Mukumela has represented South Africa at under-17, under-20, under-23 and senior international levels. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Cape Town Spurs was known as Ajax Cape Town until September 2020.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Thendo Mukumela". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "Sundowns transfer news: Thendo Mukumela joins Ajax Cape Town, Erik Hamren leaves | Goal.com". www.goal.com.
  3. ↑ "Mukumela- I still wanna go back to Sundowns". 27 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Spurs confirm Mukumela departure". capetownspurs.co.za. 10 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Thendo Mukumela at Soccerway. Retrieved 28 February 2021.


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