Siphiwe Tshabalala

Lawrence Siphiwe Tshabalala ( born September 25, 1984 in Soweto ) is a South African football player.

Club career

Tshabalala played until 2004 for the second division Alexandra United, the qualification for the newly created single-track second league clearly missed as a table next to last of the season Inland Stream in the season 2003/ 04. Tshabalala then moved up to second division team Free State Stars, with whom he won the second division championship in season 2004/ 05 and rose to the Premier Soccer League. The rise followed the direct re- descent as Table, the Tshabalala used mainly on the left wing remained, although already international, initially at Free Stars and joined in January 2007 for an estimated 1.3 million rand to the Kaizer Chiefs.

Immediately after joining forced him to a chronic knee injury to a competition break of six months, until the 2007/ 08 season, he could make his debut for the Chiefs. In the 2008 /09 season he was promoted to star player of his team and was club internally awarded Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year. With the Chiefs, he won the Telkom Knockout so far in 2007, the MTN 8 2008.

National

Tshabalala was appointed surprising for the 2006 African Cup of coach Carlos Alberto Parreira for the first time in the South African national team, and was just before the tournament starts in a friendly match against Egypt his international debut. In the final group match against Zambia the winger was the first time in the starting lineup, the 0-1 defeat meant but that Vorrundenaus as Table.

As a result, Tshabalala has established itself as a regular player of the national team and remained so even after his six-month injury layoff. In the African Cup of 2008 he was again in the squad, and came when re Vorrundenaus two appearances. From Parreira's successor Joel Santana Tshabalala was called into the squad for the Confederations Cup 2009. In this tournament, he came in 4 games used. In the first group match of the 2010 World Cup against Mexico in a 1-1 draw, he scored the first goal of the tournament and thus also the first World Cup goal of the story on African soil. Also in the following two group games against Uruguay and France, he was in the starting, the initial departure of a World Cup host in the group phase but could not prevent it.

Achievements

  • Baymed Cup: 2006
  • Mvela Golden League: 2004/ 05, 2006/ 07
  • South African Cup Winners' Cup: 2008
  • Footballer of the Year in South Africa: 2010
Free State Stars F.C. Kaizer Chiefs F.C.
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