EDITORIAL | SA football needs more than lip service to proper safety nets for ex-players

Overall, how former footballers and legends have been looked after has been a deficiency from ‘all the stakeholders’ of the game

20 April 2023 - 21:57

It has become standard that when news comes of a former professional footballer falling on hard times, the Premier Soccer League (PSL), its clubs and the South African Football Association (Safa) wheel out the same old tired clichés. ..

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