Legend Siyabonga Nomvete Happy That His Son Has Followed in His Footballing Footsteps, but Warns Him to Focus

• Legendary striker Siyabonga Nomvete is a happy man that his son has followed in his footsteps to play professional football
• Lifa Nomvete is on the books of Amazulu, where he is a regular in the club's DStv Diski Challenge team
• His father, a former Bafana Bafana, Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Udinese player, is Usuthu's assistant coach on the club's senior team

Former striker Siyabonga Nomvete is a proud man after his son chose to play professional football just like his father.

Lifa Nomvetee has established himself in Amazulu's DStv Diski Challenge as a regular. His father is an assistant coach in the club's senior team in the DStv Premiership.

Nomvethe is remembered in the football fraternity after bursting onto the scene with the highly entertaining African Wanderers team of the mid-1990s, including Sibusiso Zuma and Phumlani Mkhize. He went on to play for Bafana Bafana, Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Udinese, Aalborg, Moroka Swallows and Amazulu.

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He said to the Citizen that he was happy with his son's chosen path, before adding:

"I am always pushing him even though I am not the one who directed him to play football. It was his decision and I then told him that football has a lot of pain and disappointments. My job will be to help and support him.”

Nomvete said that Lifa is also a second-year university student, stating that his son must not lose focus on that front:

"What I have also encouraged him in is school. I told him school comes first even though he has made me proud by wanting to follow in my footsteps. He is doing his second year in IT. Football will always be there."

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As reported by Sports Brief, a hat-trick against Moroka Swallows took the Namibian goal-poacher to 18 league goals this campaign. He has six matches to reach the now-magical 20-goal mark.

The last time a player did that was Siyabonga Nomvethe, who netted 20 times for Moroka Swallows in the 2011/12 Absa Premiership campaign.