Former VFL Bochum winger Delron Buckley has opened up about why he never played for the ‘Big Three’ sides in South Africa upon his return from Europe.
Buckley spent almost two decades in Europe, Germany to be specific, plying his trade for Bochum, Borussia Dortmund and Mainz.
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He featured 73 times for Bafana Bafana and returned home in 2012 to join Maritzburg United (now, Durban City) where he spent two years as a player and later becoming an assistant coach at the Team of Choice.
Buckley spoke to iDiski Times digital editor David Kappel in the latest edition, 185, of the newspaper where he revealed that he wanted to play for one of the big three but was told his age was a disadvantage.
“If I tell you, you can probably get a shock,” Buckley told iDiski Times.
“Because I actually wanted to play for those teams when I wanted to come back. I actually wanted to finish off my career either by Pirates, Chiefs or Sundowns, but apparently, I was told that I’m too old to play.
“When I came back, I was 35. So, I was told, ‘Nah, he’s too old and he won’t cope with the league’ and this and that. So, this is how I ended up in Maritzburg. And then in the first season of my 35-year-old season, I was four times the Man of the Match.”
