| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Moeneeb Josephs[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1980-05-19)19 May 1980 (age 45) | ||
| Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Westdale | |||
| Westridge Rovers | |||
| Cape Town Spurs | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–1999 | Cape Town Spurs | 21 | (0) |
| 1999–2006 | Ajax Cape Town | 115 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Wits University | 55 | (0) |
| 2008–2013 | Orlando Pirates | 103 | (0) |
| 2013–2018 | Bidvest Wits | 95 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | AmaZulu | 19 | (0) |
| Total | 408 | (0) | |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2003–2014 | South Africa | 24 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15 June 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22 May 2012 | |||
Moeneeb Josephs (pronounced Muh'Neeb; born 19 May 1980) is a retired South African professionalfootballer who played as agoalkeeper.
Josephs began his career withCape Town Spurs at the age of 17 in 1997 and played for its successorAjax Cape Town for seven years. In 2006, he moved to Gauteng where he played forBidvest Wits for two years before moving toOrlando Pirates for a record-breaking fee.
Josephs has played at international level forSouth Africa national team and was South Africa's number one goalkeeper at the2008 African Cup of Nations replacing the injuredRowen Fernandez.
He did not make the final squad for the2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, but earned selection to the squad for the2010 FIFA World Cup at Fernandez's expense. He was not expected to see much playing time as back-up toItumeleng Khune, but on 16 June 2010 he was called on as a 79th-minute substitute forSteven Pienaar following Khune's sending-off againstUruguay. Josephs was powerless to stop the resultant penalty fromDiego Forlán as Bafana Bafana lost the match 3–0 with two goals from Forlan and a stoppage-time strike fromÁlvaro Pereira.[2] Khune's suspension meant that Josephs played in South Africa's final group game againstFrance, where they won 2–1 but were eliminated from the World Cup.
On 24 May 2012, he announced his retirement from international football.[3]
He was called back after two years byGordon Igesund forCHAN 2014 hosted in South Africa and he played a full match in final group stage againstNigeria in 3–1 defeat in a place of injured Itumeleng Khune. That was his final game for Bafana and he was personally criticized together withLerato Chabangu for a loss against Nigeria byMinister of Sport and RecreationFikile Mbalula, when he said "Bafana Bafana are weak, useless and they are the bunch of losers individual"."[4]
Josephs hails fromMitchell's Plain on theCape Flats. Josephs is Muslim.
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