Patrick Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe OIS (26 February 1952[1] – 8 May 2006) was a South African soccer player who is widely considered as one of the greatest the country has ever produced.
[3] Ntsoelengoe's father, Daniel (born 1934), played semi-professional football with Randfontein Young Zebras.
In total he played 11 seasons in the North American Soccer League, beginning in 1973 with the Miami Toros.
A quiet man with incredible skills, it is quite remarkable that his soccer career was confined to South Africa and North America.
He acquired his nickname from his father, Daniel, who was also one of South Africa's top players.
While Ace spent his summers in Canada or in the United States, he returned home during the winter to play for the Kaizer Chiefs, a club with an enormous following in Johannesburg.
Nominally a midfielder, he constantly pushed forward into attacking positions and often scored more goals than strikers.
Former South African national coach Clive Barker insisted the Chiefs legend was as gifted as Zinedine Zidane.
One of his former coaches at Chiefs, Eddie Lewis, is quoted as saying that if he had been born 20 years later, Ace would have enjoyed the same status as Ronaldinho.