More than six months after his Mamelodi Sundowns spell came to an end, young Katlego Otladisa has found a new club.
More than six months after his Mamelodi Sundowns spell came to an end, young Katlego Otladisa has found a new club.
The 24-year-old left Chloorkop before Christmas last year having joined them from the now defunct Platinum Stars, but initially allowed to remain there on loan for the remainder of the 2017/18 season.
When Otladisa did eventually move to Downs he struggled to break into the first team and would subsequently spend the next two years elsewhere, first at Cape United (the new-look Platinum Stars) and then Ajax Cape Town (now Cape Town Spurs).
His Downs contract was terminated in December last year, and the ex-Athletico FC graduate in Rustenburg has been keeping fit waiting for his next big break.
The Siya crew has now had it confirmed that Otladisa has found one and agreed a three-year deal with Marumo Gallants, who were known as TTM just a week ago.
"I think it was about time. He is such a talented player, but obviously things didn't work out at Sundowns like we'd hoped," said Eddie Pienaar, mentor and a representative of Otladisa from his teenage years at Athletico.
"It will be good for Katlego to play top-flight football again at an ambitious club like Gallants. He is a role model to many of our young players at Athletico and there will be many more to come."
The attacker is then expected to be part of a list of players being unveiled by the club in the coming weeks as they prepare for the 2021/22 season set to kick off sometime in August – unless the start is delayed by the play-offs fiasco.
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