Itumeleng Khune

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Name: Itumeleng Khune

Age: 36 years (19 June 1987)

Stature: 180 cm

Weight: 75 kg

Nationality:

South Africa

Status

Role: goalkeeper / edit.

Club: Kaizer Chiefs / edit.

Itumeleng Khune. Biography

Itumeleng Khune is a footballer from South Africa, currently playing for Kaizer Chiefs as a goalkeeper. He was born in 1987 in Ventersdorp, South Africa. He began playing at Kaizer Chiefs in 1999, being a defender but due to a chest problems became a ball boy for some time, before Terror Sephoa, the coach of the youth team, noticed him and helped the footballer to become a keeper. In 2004 Itumeleng Khune joined the senior squad but he hadn’t made a single appearance during three years before Rowen Fernandez, the team’s first-choice goalkeeper left the team. In August 2007 the footballer made his Premier Soccer League in the match against Jomo Cosmos. During the 2007/08 season he got many individual awards. In the 2008/09 season Kaizer Chiefs won the MTN 8 but the following season Itumeleng Khune suffered a finger injury so he stayed aside for three months.

He made his international debut for Zimbabwe in March 2008. Khune was chosen to the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup tournament, he also was the first-choice keeper at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.