In the latest edition of our feature Where Are They Now, KickOff catches up with former Orlando Pirates and Ajax Cape Town captain Edelbert Dinha on his life after football.
The retired Zimbabwean midfielder hung up his boots in 2008 at the end of his deal with Mpumalanga Black Aces.
Who am I?
"Eddie Dinha, I grew up loving playing soccer. I managed to play internationally, and I am very proud to have captained one of the biggest teams in South Africa.
"I won the Rothmans Cup with Ajax Cape Town and the PSL title with Orlando Pirates. I enjoyed my football at both clubs."
My playing days…
"It was good. It was nice when you play with and against great players."
Did you make money from soccer?
"Not really. We can't compare it with now. But it was okay. It was all right. If I was still playing today, I could probably be earning around R900 000 a month.
"When Pirates bought me from Ajax, I was the most expensive foreign player. They paid R1 million."
Where I'm living…
"I'm in Fourways in Johannesburg. I have two children. No wife though."
Jobs since playing the game?
"I've been concentrating on the Shumba football development; Shumba is a lion in Shona. We are heavily involved in what they used to call the SAB league."
If I could do it again…
"I wouldn't change anything; I think everything that happened and everything that I did was for a good cause.
"These days in the Premier Soccer League we don't have enough foreigners like we did before, hence people think the quality of foreign players coming into the country has dropped.
"But today in the PSL you can even find one team that is without a foreigner.
"Before, every club had a foreigner. Now you can count only a few clubs that have foreigners. Before we had three, four foreigners playing for one team and all of them would be playing game in game out."