CHAPTER 14Isigqibo
The decision
Seven months later. I’ve made it.
Don’t ask me how. I’m not some kind of whiz kid nor am I a born athlete. You know that, Andile. I’ve just turned seventeen and I love to play football – that is the key. That’s not the only thing, of course. It also involves a lot of hard slog, hours of training every day, but the most important thing is: you have to enjoy what you’re doing.
“Ihlathi leentonga … forest is full of wood,” as grandfather Tatomkhulu would say, meaning: you always have enough reserves of strength when you’re doing something with all your heart. When I still lived in the country, the hours I spent with Sipho, Andy and the other Lion Strikers were the best part of my life. But who’d have guessed that I’d make it to the very top? I never believe
