Mpho "Gift" Leremi (October 13, 1984 – September 3, 2007) was a South African football midfielder for Mamelodi Sundowns, in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on September 3, 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Leremi was an offensive midfielder who began his career with the youth club Pimville Giants in Soweto, where he was born, and discovered by Orlando Pirates in 1999 at a local soccer tournament. Upon j...
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Mpho "Gift" Leremi (October 13, 1984 – September 3, 2007) was a South African football midfielder for Mamelodi Sundowns, in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on September 3, 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Leremi was an offensive midfielder who began his career with the youth club Pimville Giants in Soweto, where he was born, and discovered by Orlando Pirates in 1999 at a local soccer tournament. Upon joining the Pirates Development team, Augusto Palacios, the Pirates youth director, immediately recognized the talent in the player and took him under his wing. Leremi made his debut for Orlando Pirates in 2002-03 season of the Premier Soccer League on August 10 2002 against Moroka Swallows FC, winning the league title in his debut season. In the summer of 2007 he moved to the then current Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns.
On 3 September 2007, Leremi was returning from a CAF CAF Confederation Cup game against Cameroon when he...
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