Mpela, Catlejo

Club

He started playing football on a professional level for Jomo Cosmos from Johannesburg.

In the summer of 2003, he joined the French club Strasbourg . First he played for Strasbourg-B. At the end of the 2003/04 season, he began to be involved in the main team. In League 1, he made his debut, replacing April 3, 2004 in a match against Bordeaux . In the 2004/05 season, the player showed himself not from the best side. He was released by the club to his homeland for family reasons. In South Africa, he lingered without explanation. The club wanted to cancel his contract, and the head coach said that the player’s career at Strasbourg ended just before it began. ^[4] However, Mpela entered the field in 12 games, with only one game played from start to finish.

In July 2005, MPela was leased to the Reims Club, which played in League 2 of the French Championship. He played for the club for a month. At the end of August 2005 it was rented by the Supersport United club. The club immediately became a core player. In the 2005/06 season he spent 30 games, scored 10 goals. The club took 7th place in the championship.

In August 2006, as a free agent, he moved to Supersport United. Spent 2 seasons at the club. As part of the club, he won the Premier League Championship of South Africa.

Since July 2008, he has been a Mamelody Sandowns player. On December 14, 2008, in a match against Platinum Stars , he was injured and out of action for 2 months. In the 2008/09 season, the team took 9th place.

In the fourteenth season of the Premier League, Catlejo played from the first minutes in all thirty matches. Having scored 17 goals, he became the top scorer of the championship. The team finished second, only one point behind Supersport United.

The next season, the football player performed no worse, scoring 13 goals in 22 championship matches. As a result, the club took fourth place, and Catlejo became the 4th in the list of championship scorers.

In the sixteenth championship of the country, after the first round, Mamelody Sandowns takes first place, and Mpela is at the head of the goalscorer table with 9 goals in 15 matches. Moreover, on the account of the football player four takes.

South Africa Team

He has been playing for the national team since 2005. He played in the COSAF Cup 2005 and 2007 . In 2005, at the group stage, the South African team defeated the Seychelles national team 3-0. MPela scored twice and was recognized as a player of the match. Then, with the score 1: 0, the team of Mauritius was beaten. Mpela distinguished himself again. In the semifinals, the South African national team lost on a penalty to the Zambian national team . At the 2007 tournament, Mpela came on as a substitute in only one match - the semi-final against Botswana .

As part of the national team, he participated in the final stages of the African Cup of Nations 2006 and 2008 .

In 2009, he played for the national team at the Confederations Cup . In the match for third place, he scored 2 goals against Spain . The game ended with the victory of the Europeans with a score of 3: 2.

In the summer of 2010 at the World Cup in South Africa, he took the starting lineup in all matches of the national team, in the last group match with the French he scored a goal ^[5] .

• French League Cup Winner (1): 2005
• COSAF Cup Winner (1): 2007
• Champion of South Africa (1): 2007/08
• Silver medalist at South African Championship (1): 2009/10
• Fourth place in the Confederations Cup (1): 2009

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