Rising Cape Town striker Angus Moss is reportedly on the cusp of joining
Mamelodi Sundowns, with the towering 17-year-old having already made an
impression in the club’s colours.
Moss was recently spotted in Sundowns kit during the BSI Ubungani Cup, where
he claimed the top scorer award, and has since been training with the club’s
DStv Diski Challenge side, fueling speculation of an imminent signing.
To understand the qualities of the 1.97m forward nicknamed ‘Haaland,’ PSLSA
sought insight from a coach within the Cape Town youth football scene, who
formerly worked at Moss’s last club, Cape Town Spurs.
“I have not worked with him as a coach, but I saw him play last season,” the
anonymous coach told the Siya crew. “I know that he came out of nowhere, if
I can put it like that. Because normally, in Cape Town football, when you
have a talented youngster, word gets out quickly. So maybe they’ve done well
to keep him quiet. If he’s training with Sundowns, I wish him luck.”
The coach highlighted the unique pressure on young talents from a storied
academy like Spurs’ Ikamva. “When you’re a young player coming from a club
like Spurs, the younger you are, the more people look at you as having an
X-factor… But to be honest, I’ve yet to see a player who comes out of
Ikamva in the last couple of years who excites me,” he confessed.
His initial observations of Moss were surprising. “Obviously, he’s huge,
he’s tall. I actually did not know that he was a striker until they put him
on and he went up front. I thought he was a defender they just threw upfront
because they needed a goal.”
As a former target-man himself, the coach paid closer attention. “When I saw
that he is a striker, in the target-man mould, immediately I watched him.
Players like that, you ask yourself, what is their X-factor? Look, he’s
still young, I haven’t seen enough of him to make a judgment.”
He concluded with cautious well-wishes and a note on the specific challenges
Moss may face. “I wish him well, I hope the coaches who worked with him have
prepared him for this journey. I know first-hand that target-men in South
African football are always watched very closely and criticised maybe a bit
harsher… because football in South Africa is not traditionally set up for
a six-foot-plus star target-man. Let’s see, if Sundowns have him, maybe they
have a plan for him.”
