Gift Leremi’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Association footballer
Was

Athlete 
Football player 
Association football player 

From

South Africa 

Type

Sports 

Gender male
Birth 13 October 1984, Soweto, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Death 3 September 2007, Alberton, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
(aged 22 years)
Star sign Libra

Mpho Gift Leremi (13 October 1984 – 3 September 2007) was a South African football midfielder who last played for Mamelodi Sundowns in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on 3 September 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa.

Career

Leremi was an offensive midfielder who began his career with the youth club Pimville Giants in Soweto, where he was born, and discovered by Orlando Pirates in 1999 at a local soccer tournament. Upon joining the Pirates development team, Augusto Palacios, the Pirates youth director, immediately recognized the talent in the player and took him under his wing.

Leremi made his debut for Orlando Pirates in 2002-03 season of the Premier Soccer League on 10 August 2002 against Moroka Swallows, winning the league title in his debut season.

In the summer of 2007 he moved to the then Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns.

Death

On 3 September 2007, Leremi was returning home after a CAF Confederation Cup game in Cameroon against Astres FC when he was involved in a traffic collision in Alberton outside Johannesburg. He sustained massive injuries and ultimately died as a result of the accident.

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