Thulani Serero

Thulani Serero ( born April 11, 1990 in Soweto ) is a South African football player.

Career

Serero, who was born in the then independent town of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg, played as a teenager at the Senane Gunners and received his football education in his home at the sports academies SuperSport United in Pretoria and Ajax Cape Town in Cape Town. Since 2008, he played in the first team of Ajax in the Premier Soccer League. 2009 appointed him the South African Football Association to U-20 Player of the Year. After the 2009/10 season he was named in the team for the Rookie of the Year. With Ajax Cape Town the 1.72 meter tall attacking midfielder was the 2011 Second South African, scoring ten goals. In three seasons, he came to a total of 16 Torerfolgen in 63 league games. For the 2011/12 season he signed a four year contract with the Dutch giants from Amsterdam.

National

Serero played 15 times in the U -17 and 14 times in the U -20 team in South Africa, with which he participated in the Junior World Cup in Egypt in 2009. In the season 2010/11 he was a member of the squad of U -23. In the second half of the season he was several times in the squad of the national team, in which he had made ​​his debut on February 9, 2011. 2-0 victory in a friendly match against Kenya coach Pitso Mosimane had him on as a substitute in the 71st minute for Bernard Parker.