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Is this the end of the road for Lehlohonolo Majoro?

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So, Orlando Pirates have dumped striker Lehlohonolo Majoro.

This move sees the player join a long and growing list of players who jumped ship (excuse the pun) from one Soweto giant to get into bed with another, only for things to go awry.

There are only a select few – such as Marks Maponyane and Jimmy Tau – who made a success of crossing the floor.

The likes of Pollen Ndlanya and the late Thabang Lebese, as well as Marc Batchelor and Stanton Fredericks had some measure of success.

Donald “Ace” Khuse – as much as he did not move directly across town as he made his way via Mamelodi Sundowns of Pretoria – was also quite a success at Kaizer Chiefs, having cut his professional teeth with the Buccaneers.

As for Majoro, unless he turns his career around dramatically, something he might find tough to do as he is on the verge of turning 30 – he will go down as one of those players described as second-hand cars that promise much but deliver very little.

Currently, Majoro’s CV will mention AmaZulu, Chiefs and Pirates as former clubs.

Having the two Soweto giants as former clubs is quite an achievement for a man born in Ladybrand, a place with a population of 25 816 that is only 46km2 in size. Wikipedia describes it as “a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated 18km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho”.

However, if history is to be believed, it is likely to be downhill from here for Majoro.

The chances of him going back to Chiefs are slim. He burnt that bridge so badly that even former team mate Bernard Parker labelled him “a coward” for jumping ship instead of “fighting for his place in the starting line-up”.

He has now fallen out with The Sea Robbers and it would seem that a tweet he posted in May – which read: “Tired of being a spectator.” – could easily have spelt the beginning of the end to his career with Ezikamagebhula.

Here is how this goes.

Majoro will have to find a club not as big as the two giants because I doubt that the all-conquering, star-studded Sundowns will have a place for him.

He will have to find a smaller club – with due respect to the other sides that make up the PSL – and re-establish his career.

He will find the going tough as his team mates will regard him as a prima donna who wants to use them to regain his fame.

Majoro will have to work twice as hard to prove that he did not fail at the two clubs, but that, in fact, they lost out.

So he will have to train twice as hard and develop a great deal of mental strength.

This is the only way that he can sustain himself or head straight for the football scrapheap.

This just shows how short and unpredictable a football career can be.

It seems like yesterday when Chiefs were singing Hallelujah after signing him from AmaZulu. He soon carved himself a niche with his knack for finding the back of the net.

Majoro had Chiefs supporters eating out of his hand until he refused to extend his stay, leading to a frosty relationship that ended with him crossing over to Pirates.

Now they have dumped him.

However, as he said in a 2012 interview he might just repeat: “All credit has to go to my parents.” He was referring to the fact that they pushed him to become a radiography graduate at the University of Johannesburg.

So if you find Majoro rushing down a passage at a private hospital in the future, know that he has found something outside of soccer, unlike many of our soccer players, who have nothing to fall back on when their soccer careers end.

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