Brian Baloyi

Brian Baloyi ( born March 16, 1974 in Alexandra, Johannesburg ) is a South African football player. The goalkeeper won in his career so far (as of 2009) four South African Championships and numerous other national titles and stood at five major tournaments in the squad of the South African national team.

Club career

Baloyi graduated between 1992 and 2004 well over 300 league games for the Kaizer Chiefs. In addition to two national championships (1992 and 2004) he won the 2001 African Cup against Inter Luanda the Winners' Cup, five times the Rothmans Cup ( 1997, 1998 ) or Coca -Cola Cup (2001, 2003, 2004), the Bob Save Super Bowl (1992, 2000) and the top 8 BP ( 1992, 1994, 2001). During the 2003/ 04 season he lost his place to Rowen Fernandez and moved to the end of the season Mamelodi Sundowns. He is since 2006 mostly behind Calvin Marlin only substitute goalkeeper and came in five years only 49 missions. In this time were two more league titles (2006, 2007) and the more a triumph in the Nedbank Cup (2008) and in the SAA Supa 8 (2007).

National

Baloyi made ​​his debut on 4 June 1997 in a friendly match against the Netherlands in the South African national team. End of the year he arrived at the Confederations Cup in 1997 in the final group game against Uruguay for use. A few months later he took over as goalkeeper participates in the Africa Cup in 1998 and finished with the state selection after a 0-2 defeat in the final against Egypt in second place.

At the World Cup in France in 1998, he remained as well as in the African Cup of Nations in 2002 as a replacement keeper behind the European Legionnaires' Hans Vonk without use. In 2000 he was one of two 23 -year-olds to the South African squad at the Olympic Games in Australia, but there was only substitute keeper behind Emile Baron.

As a result came Baloyi, who wore the captain's armband on several occasions also, increasingly rare inserts, between 2004 and 2008, he was mustered only three times. In May 2009, national coach Joel Santana called him surprisingly in the 30 man provisional squad for the comprehensive Confederations Cup 2009, after he was able to displace his teammates Marlin of the season end in Mamelodi from the goalkeeper position.

After End of career

Since November 2010, Brian Baloyi owner and president of Alexandria United.