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Ralani Finally Breaks Silence On Downs Exit

Former Mamelodi Sundowns attacker Surprise Ralani has admitted that he felt confused by being frozen out in the cold during his last days at Chloorkop.

Ralani had an 18-month spell at Sundowns where he won various trophies, including two league titles before leaving the Brazilians after his contract expired to join Cape Town Spurs.

Speaking to Andile Ncube on Metro FM’s Sports Nite Amplified, the veteran 37-year-old speedster reveals that upon recovering from his injury, he saw himself not featuring anymore with coach Rulani Mokwena complaining about his body language despite being given his word that he would stay beyond his final six months.

“So, I’m actually also going home for the short break that we had in December after the Carling Cup,” Ralani said.

“I do my rehab and I come back around January and I’m still injured. They working with me on the side and everything.

“Coach is still in my corner, ‘Hey, don’t worry, we keeping you, don’t worry we keeping you’.

“Out of the blue I’m not playing anymore even when I return from the injury. Nothing is being said to me.

“And players are coming to me and saying, ‘Hey’. Even Mshishi [Themba Zwane] came to me one time and said, ‘Surprise, whatever you’ve done, just go and apologize we need you’. And I’m like to Mshishi, ‘But what did I do? I don’t know of anything that I did’.

“So, there was a time that the coach [Mokwena] also called me in and said he’s not happy with my body language and stuff like that but never a thing of my performance in training how I train, if I’m lazy anything like that, nothing like that. Just body language.

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“And then I said okay, maybe sometimes I can agree to this because I’m disappointed that I’m not playing anymore. Not that I have something against anyone, maybe the players or management, nothing like that! But I’m just disappointed with myself.

“Because this is not how I know myself. I mean every team that I’ve played for, and this is how I explained to him, every team that I’ve played for, I carried.

“I’m not being cocky or anything. I was the main guy in every team that I played for,” he said.

Ralani is now back in his home province, the Northern Cape, where he turns out for Motsepe Foundation Championship side Hungry Lions.

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