Hola Grosso, you are back with us for another week. You had us in stitches last week with some of your muti stories from your time at Free State Stars. Judging by how many stories you shared, we have a feeling that there are still a few more hilarious stories to share from your time there...
Ha, ha, ha. Yes, I have a few more stor- ies to share from my time there. It was one of the clubs where there were quite a few funny moments.
We had a lot of characters there. It's a story about Badra Ali Sangare.
Yes...
So, this one time we were travelling back from a game in Limpopo. When we got to Joburg, he met up with his friends from Ivory Coast. They gave him fish in a plastic bag. Can you imagine the smell of fish from Joburg to the Free State? Yoh, yoh, yoh! It was really bad.
Geez, must have been one punishing journey back to the Free State!
The entire bus smelled of fish, and the guys were like, "My man, where are you taking that fish?" And he was like, "I eat everything. I eat the eyes, I eat everything." That was such a funny moment because of how it smelled. When the fish started defrosting, it smelled. That man got angry because everyone started making fun of the fish, ha, ha, ha.
That's hilarious.
Can you imagine? From Jozi to the Free State? Eish, those are some of the stories that always make me laugh. There is another story I remember about Sadat Ouro-Akoriko.
Oh yes, we remember him.
One day, he called his uncle. When he made the call, Paulus Masehe, Katlego Mashego and Themba Shabalala were there. Sadat was like, "Because we are not winning, I have my uncle on that side. He will help us. So, you guys should give me R3000 each in order to help the team win." He called his uncle over there (in Togo). The guys took out the money because they thought he would help us. They could not under- stand what he was saying to his uncle because he was speaking in a different language. After that, we lost the first game, ha, ha, ha.
You're kidding!
After we lost, the guys were speak- ing amongst themselves and thought Sadat was just eating their money, ha, ha, ha. By that time, the money was gone. I think they did that for two games and then they realised that it was not working. I am telling you, Free State Stars was a nice place. I enjoyed my time there. It was very nice.
You should keep going because we can't get enough of your stories from there...
There is another incident I can remember from the late Ntate (Mike) Mokoena. He would call a meeting. When we got into the meeting room, no one would want to sit in front because when he was angry, he would just shout. Even the senior guys did not want to sit in front. Anyone he saw sitting in front, he would just have a go at him, ha, ha, ha.
When the senior players were scared of sitting in front, imagine how the younger guys in the team would feel...
I was like, "If you guys don't want to go there, why must we go? Go there", ha, ha, ha. Ntate Mokoena would have a go at anyone. What was also funny was that he would start a meeting and sometimes say, "Who is this player?"... but he was the one who had signed him, ha, ha, ha. He would speak Sesotho to someone who speaks English. He would say, "Wena o mang? (who are you?)". He would say that to one of the foreigners. Those moments were really funny.
Clearly it was dangerous to sit in front whenever there was a meeting with the chairman at Stars.
When I was at Bidvest Wits, there was a time when coach Gavin Hunt went crazy on us in the dressing room. He started pointing at everyone in the face. I think we were trailing 1-0 at half-time and coach Gavin was really angry. When he came into the dressing room, he started pointing at everyone. But when he got to Steven Pienaar, I wanted to see if he was going to point at him.
Well, that's what we're also interested in, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, Pienaar gave him that look to say, "Don't you dare", ha, ha, ha. It was such a funny moment. He skipped Pienaar and the guys were like, "He is scared of Pienaar", ha, ha, ha. Pienaar was a big player, my brother. He was not the type of player you could just point at like that. It was one of the funniest mo- ments in my career.
Poor Gavin. But let's pause here for this week and save some more stories for our readers for next week. Thank you so much for your time this week, Grosso. We are waiting in anticipation to hear what you have in store for us next week.
Ha, ha, ha. Thank you, my brother. We will carry on next week.
IN TOUCH FUN FACTS
Nickname: Grosso
Marital status: In a relationship
Car: None
Boots:PUMA FUTURE
Favourite teammate: Mohau Mokate
Favourite roommate: Paulus Masehe
Favourite food: Pap and pork
Favourite footballer: Themba Zwane
Best friend in football: Moeketsi Sekola
