Kekana’s ‘thunderbolt’ nominated for international award
He dedicated the nomination to his former teammate Anele Ngcongca who passed away in a car accident this week.
Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder and captain Hlompho Kekana was nominated for the Puskás award this week.
The FIFA Puskás Award is given to the player judged to have scored the “most beautiful” goal of the calendar year.
Kekana becomes the first South African to be nominated for the award twice. In 2016, he was nominated after he scored a long range goal against Cameroon in the 2017 AFCON qualifiers.
This year, he was nominated for his strike against Cape Town City in August 2019. The same goal won the PSL Goal of the Season. The Puskás awards goes to the player that gets the most votes out of the top 10 nominees.
The 35-year-old midfielder will have to fend off competition from the likes of Luis Suarez and Son Heung-min to win the 2020 FIFA Puskás award.
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He dedicated the nomination to his former teammate Anele Ngcongca who passed away in a car accident this week.
“As a club we are still mourning the loss of our brother. In training we feel it. Amidst the sadness, it is difficult to process this and I have to dedicate this nomination to my brother Anele Ngcongca,” Kekana said in a tweet.
Those who wish to vote may do so on https://fifa.fans/3mb1NRA
Voting is open to the public on www.fifa.com until 9 December, and the winners will be announced on the 11 December.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
The 2019/20 PSL Goal of the Season scored by the legendary @Hlompho_Kekana has been nominated for the prestigious #PuskasAward
VOTE for it via the link below:https://t.co/k2rXkA32hn pic.twitter.com/0Pl0Ot7HwB
— Official PSL (@OfficialPSL) November 25, 2020
Scroll down. All the finalists are there and you can watch each goal. Under each video you will see ‘1 2 3’. I voted for @Hlompho_Kekana as the best so I clicked ‘1’ by his goal like the picture below shows https://t.co/1TSORGMwEJ pic.twitter.com/fLhpZqFO09
— Julia Stuart (@JuliaStuart_SA) November 26, 2020
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