Pitso Mosimane will hold the fourth week of July in the year 2024 dearly for years to come considering its significance.
Mosimane is presently out of a coaching job with a professional club after an unsuccessful attempt to save Abha Club from relegation in the Saudi Pro League, but that will take a backseat this week.
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The man born in Kagiso on the West Rand as Pitso John Hamilton Mosimane celebrates his 60th birthday on Friday and will do so with all his loved ones at home in Johannesburg.
He will do so reflecting on a playing career which won him four Bafana Bafana caps after taking him through several stints at Jomo Cosmos and Mamelodi Sundowns, before moving to Orlando Pirates, Greece, Belgium and Qatar.
Then, at the tail end of his playing career, Mosimane had another stint with Sundowns in the 1997/98 title-winning season when he scored once in eight appearances, most of which came as a substitute.
His coaching career was already in motion by then having had a taste of the trade ion Belgium and Sundowns' feeder team but started out at the bottom at Barney Molokoane Academy once his playing career was completely over.
He didn't last long at the academy and moved to SuperSport United, where through being a scout was then incorporated as a second assistant coach when the legendary Bruce Grobbelaar was in charge as the dates of the calendar turned from 1999 to 2000.
What then happened from there is well-documented as he moved to the SuperSport head coach job from October 2001 to May 2007 when he took up permanent employment at SAFA until June 2012 serving as both assistant and head coach.
With Bafana, he went to the AFCON, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA World Cup, and won the COSAFA Cup.
December 2012 marked a return to club football as he returned to Sundowns and after almost a decade in charge then left to work at Al Ahly Cairo, Al Ahli Jeddah, Al Wahda Abu Dhabi and Abha Club.
There have been plenty trophies - local and international - won through this coaching journey, which has led to the University of Johannesburg deciding to confer an honorary Doctor of Philosophy a day before he turns 60.
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According to the UJ, the doctorate is to honour Mosimane for the work he has done in championing African football on the global stage.
'Jingles' has led the way in getting into uncharted waters standing up to the demands as he won silverware in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.