In this week's exciting feature of My Welcome To The League Moment, a former Jomo Cosmos player Sibusiso Mhlongo shares a story of how he swapped three clubs in the space of a week.
In 1995, Mhlongo left the province of Mpumalanga to play for Moroka Swallows, found himself scoring twice for Ezenkosi, but ended up signing with Orlando Pirates.
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"My first professional contract was at Orlando Pirates, even today I don't understand how that happened," Mhlongo tells KickOff.
"Pirates used the money to convince me. I don't know how Pirates managed to pull that one off because I had agreed on everything with Jomo.
"I came to Joburg to play for Moroka Swallows, but ended up playing for Cosmos, and Pirates snatched me from them in less than three days of my arrival in Joburg.
"What happened is I had come to visit my mother in Gauteng who happened to be Lawrence Siyangaphi's agent.
"After learning I was there to join Moroka Swallows, Siyangaphi took me to Cosmos and I joined their pre-season camp.
"What shocked me is the way Jomo pretended to everyone he knew who I was when he had just seen me for the first time [laughs].
"Jomo immediately put me in the starting line-up in one of their pre-season friendlies, and I scored two goals that day against Pimville United Brothers.
"Cosmos had just been promoted from the first division to PSL.
"What surprised me was how Pirates knew about me and that I was at Cosmos, I was shocked to see them arriving at my mother's place.
"I didn't get a chance to sign with Cosmos, and that was the first time me and Jomo met. So even now I don't know how the Pirates people found out about me.
"And the Pirates people arrived at my mother's place a few minutes after Jomo Sono had left.
"The Pirates people were carrying lots of ten rands, that's what won my heart over I guess [laughs[. That was my welcome to the top tier. Before that, I didn't know things could happen so fast in football."
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