Chiefs assistant coach Dillon Sheppard decries state of Safa’s School of Excellence
The once great institution and conveyor belt of exciting talent is now on the brink of collapse
14 March 2023 - 20:18
Kaizer Chiefs assistant coach Dillon Sheppard was a scrawny, acne-ravaged 16-year-old when he arrived at the Safa-Transnet School of Excellence in 1995. Then school principal Steve Pila said they had to convert him from a striker to a defender to protect the Durban-born lad him from having his bones broken in challenges...
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