Before crowd favourites like Jabu Pule, Thabiso Malatsi, Junior Khanye and Hendrik Ekstein at Kaizer Chiefs... there was Tshepo Molatedi, who is this week's Throwback Thursday.
Who can forget the 1994 Iwisa Maize Meal Charity Spectacular where the big Orlando Pirates defender Gavin Lane was judged to have brought down the young Molatedi inside the box and a penalty was awarded.
"You remember Pirates was leading us 1-0? Ja so I was making a plan so that we could at least equalise [laughs]," Molatedi admits to snl24.com/kickoff.
"Do you remember Phillipe Troussier? He was always encouraging me saying 'You because you have a small body if they touch you inside the box just fall down, get something even if it's not a penalty. Because of your body the referee is gonna be convinced that they did foul you.' So ja it was on purpose.
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"I couldn't compete with people who had huge bodies you see. That day it was Gavin Lane who fouled me [laughs]. He was fighting, swearing at me, 'F@#k you! You took a dive!' But I didn't care because swearing is part of football. We swear at each other a lot in football you see."
Now 47, the Johannesburg-born former midfielder retired at Bloemfontein Celtic.
"My contract had expired and you know in South Africa once you reach age 30 they will write you off. I think I was 36, 37, somewhere there," he continues.
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"As for Chiefs they were my second family, I started playing there from under-12 until I got to the first team. The late Jeff Butler is the one who promoted me in 1992. I was 19 years old and I was still at school then.
"Unfortunately for me when Paul Dolezar arrived at Chiefs he preferred big players with big bodies. He brought in big and tall guys so I had to move on loan."
Interestingly, Molatedi says the highest salary he earned in his football was not at his beloved Amakhosi.
"I would say at Celtic. At that time it was R30 000. At Chiefs I got less than at Celtic. But I'm not blaming anyone, Chiefs was paying me very well, I would get my salary every month. So they don't owe me anything. They paid me well and according to my contract, bonuses were there."
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These days Molatedi works as a salesman to put food inside his fridge.
"At the moment I'm working at Avis Car Rentals in Jozi. I'm a sales agent there. It's all up to you how you use money my brother. I got that job through my school qualifications, I finished my Matric, I put my CV, and fortunately I was called for an interview.
"My life is still the same, I'm still the same person. I'm married with two kids. My first-born is at Chiefs now playing for their under-17s. He is also a midfielder."