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Jomo Sono Information (769 words) |
 | Sono was born in the suburb of Orlando East in Soweto, near Johannesburg. |
 | Consequently, Sono was left in the care of his ailing grandparents; as they were very poor, he had to resort to selling apples and peanuts at soccer games and train stations in order to clothe himself, buy food for his grandparents and pay school fees. |
 | Sono’s soccer career had an unusual beginning; during a match that he attended one of the Orlando Pirates’s regular players was absent and Sono was requested to stand in for him. |
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Jomo Sono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (808 words) |
 | Sono was born in the suburb of Orlando East in Soweto, near Johannesburg. |
 | When he was eight years old his father Eric "Scara" Bhamuza Sono, who was a midfielder for the Orlando Pirates soccer team in the early 1960s, died as a result of a car crash. |
 | Sono’s soccer career had an unusual beginning; during a match that he attended one of the Orlando Pirates’s regular players was absent and Sono was requested to stand in for him. |