Moeneeb Josephs

Moeneeb Josephs
Personal information
Full name	Moeneeb Josephs
Date of birth	19 May 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth	Cape Town, South Africa
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Westdale
	Westridge Rovers
	Cape Town Spurs
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–1999	Cape Town Spurs
1999–2006	Ajax Cape Town
2006–2008	Wits University
2008–2013	Orlando Pirates
2013–2018	Bidvest Wits
2018–2019	AmaZulu
Total
International career‡
2003–2014	South Africa
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 June 2018; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 May 2012

Moeneeb Josephs (pronounced Muh'Neeb; born 19 May 1980) is a retired South African professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Josephs began his career with

Ajax Cape Town for seven years. In 2006, he moved to Gauteng where he played for Bidvest Wits for two years before moving to Orlando Pirates

for a record-breaking fee.

International career

Josephs has played at international level for

Rowen Fernandez

.

He did not make the final squad for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, but earned selection to the squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at Fernandez's expense. He was not expected to see much playing time as back-up to Itumeleng Khune, but on 16 June 2010 he was called on as a 79th-minute substitute for Steven Pienaar following Khune's sending-off against Uruguay. Josephs was powerless to stop the resultant penalty from Diego Forlán as Bafana Bafana lost the match 3–0 with two goals from Forlan and a stoppage-time strike from Álvaro Pereira.^[2] Khune's suspension meant that Josephs played in South Africa's final group game against France, where they won 2–1 but were eliminated from the World Cup.

On 24 May 2012, he announced his retirement from international football.^[3]

He was called back after two years by

Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, when he said "Bafana Bafana are week, useless and they are the bunch of losers individual"."^[4]