Majoro is Cape Town City’s big ‘Hollywood signing’

CAPE Town City have made no secret of the fact that they want to take the Premier Soccer League by storm this season.

Yesterday, the new Mother City top-flight club demonstrated that they mean business by pulling off a major coup with the capture of striker Lehlohonolo Majoro from Orlando Pirates. Majoro is one of the country’s top forwards. Having played for both Soweto glamour clubs – Kaizer Chiefs and Pirates – the experienced 29-year-old is nationally recognised as a big-name player. In PSL parlance, Majoro is City’s “Hollywood signing”.

“I think we’ve saved the best for last,” said City owner John Comitis.

“We are so excited, the squad and the technical team are equally excited as well, and we now hope that the Cape Town fraternity will share in our excitement too.

“We hope Capetonians will see that we are trying to include everyone, and have some more reasons to bring even the Pirates and Chiefs supporters to our home games to see their favourite players now representing City.

“We seriously want to be contenders. A team needs to score goals to win games, and this signing is a clear indication of what we are about.”

Comitis recently bought the PSL franchise of Mpumalanga Black Aces and relocated the team to the Mother City.

The name was changed to Cape Town City – and, in an effort to beef up the squad for their debut season, Comitis has brought in a host of new signings, including Austrian Roland Putsche, Australians Matt Sim and James Brown, Latvian Renars Rode, Ebrahim Seedat, Robyn Johannes, Tshepo Gumede, Shaquille Abrahams, Samora Motloung, Duncan Adonis and Never Ngcuka.

But the addition yesterday of Majoro clearly has City thrilled and animated.