The newly crowned Absa Premiership Young player of the season Keagan Dolly believes that he can fit into any of the Big three teams in the country, namely Mamelodi Sundowns, Kaizer Chiefs or Orlando Pirates. The 21 year-old walked away with R50 000 last night after winning this award following an exciting season he had with the struggling Ajax Cape Town. The Sundowns youth academy product knows what he wants…
The Brazilians who seem to be ready to bid for all the special players in the league have already contacted Dolly but he says they didn’t follow proper channels…
Dolly joined Ajax in 2011 after they saw him play for the Sundowns juniors in the Bayhill tournament. He had joined Sundowns from the School of Excellence and remembers a lot of other youngsters who are now in the PSL but not at the Brazilians. It pains him that after all the years spent at that development academy they don’t get a chance to play for the senior team…
Dolly also received a call-up to Bafana Bafana late last year when they went to play Morocco in an international friendly. And he’s looking forward to keeping himself in the national team set-up radar…Journalist: Velile Mbuli