SA Soccer Stars Who Have Gone Broke

SA Soccer Stars Who Have Gone Broke! The thing about being a kind of an athlete is it doesn’t last as long as other professions. Whilst most of them get paid huge money every month, only a few know what to prioritize and look out for their lives after football.

These players didn’t and now they are broke and they are still young. Check this updated list of local soccer stars who went broke.

Lerato Chabangu

Chabangu spent all his money on women and cars. The 32 year old admitted to Sowetan that his situation has gotten bad that he has moved into his grandmother’s home in Tembisa.

Punch Masenamela

In 2016, the former Mamelodi Sundowns defender was reported to have gone broke after allegedly losing his yellow BMW 1 Series and his house.

Ndumiso Vezi

The quick rise and fall of Vezi is one of saddest football stories in the PSL. In 2015, Vezi was reportedly depressed and broke which forced him to move back home and live on his father’s pension money after his bitter war with former club Ajax Cape Town.

Junaid Hartley

36 year old Hartley had a great career but that all changed after retirement when he found himself doing drugs and eventually lost everything forcing him to become homeless.

Lavas Mohlala

In a Facebook post in 2016, the former Sundowns player opened up about going broke, fake friends and women.