Former Orlando Pirates star Rooi Mahamutsa has shown us all how to deal with hooligans. Image: @FARPOst / Twitter
‘I still have my family, my cars, my house’ – Pirates’ ex-star
This former Orlando Pirates player has surely inspired current footballers. It is the former Bucs defender Rooi Mahamutsa.
Former Orlando Pirates star Rooi Mahamutsa has shown us all how to deal with hooligans. Image: @FARPOst / Twitter
Former Orlando Pirates defender Rooi Mahamutsa was out of the spotlight until the past week, thanks to a viral video on social media.
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FORMER ORLANDO PIRATES STAR ABUSED EKASI
As The South African website reported on Friday, Mahamutsa trended on social media after a faceless man hurled abuse at him during a game ekasi.
In the video, a man is heard yelling “You made Pirates lose a long time ago, what are you still doing here (playing amateur football). Are you married, when did you get married?”
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MAHAMUTSA RESPONDS
Following the event, the 40-year-old former Pirates number five from Standerton, Mpumalanga, said he was not bothered by the attack.
“I saw the video; someone sent it to me on Tuesday, but I did not put too much on it because I know how social media is,” Mahamutsa told Andile Ncube on Sports Night Amplified on Wednesday, as quoted by iDiskiTimes.
“What was said in the video was hurtful, but I told myself that I was not going to entertain it. I play eKasi (township) because I love the game, it’s not for hunger or anything – and I have been doing this for years.
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“Whatever the guy said on the video is not going to break me. It was disrespectful. I just thought, ‘What does this guy teach his kids?’”
“I still have my family, my cars, my house. I play eKasi because I love it,” the ex-Pirates center-back added.
Mahamutsa added to confirm he pretty much has all the necessities he needs to enjoy his life.
“I am fine financially. I play eKasi not because I need money but because I want to share my experience from playing professionally and make youngsters believe they can do it.
“The game of football has provided me with everything that I have. I am not going to sit and say football hasn’t done this or that for me.
“For me, I just want to share my knowledge with the young ones so they can get where I was. I have won my medals,” the former Pirates star concluded with his classy wisdom.
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