TS Galaxy head coach Sead Ramovic has confirmed teenage sensation Aphelele Teto has been demoted to the DStv Diski Challenge squad.
Teto, 19, starred for the Rockets reserve team before breaking into the senior set-up last season as Ramovic handed him his debut.
His meteoric rise continued and Teto was one of the first names on the team sheets with eight consecutive league starts in the current DStv Premiership campaign.
However, he’s only featured in four of their last 10 games and was left out of eight matchday squads.
“He’s a very skillful player, talented but he’s 19, he’s young and sometimes with young players after playing four or five games, they start to think they are Messi and then you have a problem,” Ramovic said at the PSL headquarters on Thursday afternoon.
“He’s young and skillful but he has to learn a lot, especially the training sessions, which wasn’t good enough, also coming in as a substitute, it was not good enough.
“I spoke to him many, many times that he has to work harder for himself, he has to improve for himself – because if he improves and shows me in every training session he wants to improve and be in the eleven, then he will get a chance.
“It will be just like he did when we took him from the reserve team, he trained well, played well, and then maybe his friends suddenly put him on a hype then he didn’t train or play well.
“I sent him back to the [DDC] because he has to show again, that he trains and plays well in the DDC, then we’ll give him a chance again.
“He’s young but he has to learn if he wants to have a great career that he can get, he has to work hard, and improve every day and then it’s a chance he will become one of the best players in South Africa. If he doesn’t, he will just disappear like many other players before him.”
Teto has registered two assists in 12 games this season in the league.
