Thomas Madigage

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Thomas Madigage
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-11-14)14 November 1970
Place of birth Burgersfort, South Africa[1]
Date of death 18 October 2012(2012-10-18) (aged 41)
Place of death Burgersfort, South Africa
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1986
Arcadia Shepherds
17 (2)
1987–1989
Jomo Cosmos
78 (14)
1990–1991 FC Zürich 1 (1)
1992
Jomo Cosmos
24 (11)
1993–2003 SuperSport United 189 (23)
Total 309 (51)
International career
1993–1997
South Africa
4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Madigage (11 November 1970 – 19 October 2012) was a South African football player and coach.

Club career

Born in

Jomo Cosmos. After impressing Matthews, he was spotted by Jomo Sono who brought the player to his own team,[2] raising him as a son.[3]

He made his debut for Jomo Cosmos at the age of 16,

Augustine Makalakalane, but the duo was not signed. Instead, both joined Swiss side FC Zürich
.

At Zürich, Madigage suffered with knee injuries and played a single league match[6] in a 5-1 loss against FC Luzern, scoring his sole team goal.[7] After failing to appear in further matches, he returned to Jomo Cosmos in 1992.[8]

He later joined Pretoria City (later renamed SuperSport United), winning the 2nd division and reaching the Bob Save Super Bowl in 1995,[9] before retiring in 2003.

International career

Madigage earned four caps for the

South African national team
.

Retirement

After retiring as a player, Madigage worked as an assistant coach for SuperSport United from 2004 to 2012[10] and later the South African national team.[8]

Later life and death

Madigage died in a car crash in the early hours of Friday 19 October 2012, after hitting a donkey crossing a road near Burgersfort, Limpopo. He was 41 at the time.[8][11]

References

  1. ^ Hlahla, Patrick; Ramphekwa, Hosea; Naik, Sameer (20 October 2012). "SA mourns soccer legend". IOL. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  2. ^ "SuperSport".
  3. ^ "Football legend laid to rest | The Star". Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Madigage's passing rocks SA". Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Football mourns Madigage's death | IOL Sport". Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  6. ^ "dbFCZ | Thomas Madigage". www.dbfcz.ch (in German). Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  7. ^ "dbFCZ | Spiel – 15.09.1990". www.dbfcz.ch (in German). Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b c "South Africa's assistant coach dies in car crash". BBC Sport. 19 October 2012.
  9. ^ "South Africa 1995". RSSSF. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Madigage to be buried next Sunday". Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Assistant Bafana Bafana coach killed | IOL News". Retrieved 5 June 2018.