He has to get used to play in front of a bigger more crazy crowd.
Foreign players also get extra goal celebration training.
The team he is going to had an average crowd of 3,000 last season. The best supported team in that league Orlando has a lower average crowd than the Victory. That game I'm presumming was only well attended because it was for the Championship.
Oh, well, that's a bummer! What about the dancing after goals?
If it's me, I would rather sitting on the bench and train harder, than going to SA with a young family.
Easy to say that without seeing the finance behind the two deals. I dont think he wouldve been re-signed at the end of this season anyway - he's had long enough to train harder under Ernie and it just isnt working out. The fact that we are willing to let him go says it all.
Perhaps Number 8 is referring to the difficult conditions of living in SA with crime and violence etc. - the highest murder rate in the world.
South Africa's national football team captain was murdered in a home invasion last month.
We've mostly seen white footballers heading the other way such as Keryn Jordan and Grant Young who were only too keen to quit South African football and settle here despite being two of the top white players in SA.
I believe the final straw leading Keryn Jordan to settle here was being victim of an attempted car-jacking at gunpoint...
There are reasons that there are very few non-Africans playing in the South African Premier Soccer League. Brockie will be the only one at SuperSport.
Im sure he was referring to that too. But if Brockie knew he wasn't going to be hanging around (he said he had even talked to Ernie about it many months ago), and if there is significantly more money behind this deal than any of the others he was offered (if he was offered any at all..), it would be hard to say no to, even with those concerns.
3 years of financial security vs. hanging around in ASB Prem or VPL etc twiddling your thumbs... which would you chose?