Kamohelo Mokotjo

Kamohelo Mokotjo (born 11 March 1991) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Cape Town City.

[3] He was promoted into the first team squad at age 16 and made one senior appearance for the club,[3] as a substitute for Shane Poggenpoel in a 1–0 defeat to Santos on 20 December 2008.

[3] Mokotjo made his Feyenoord debut with a start in a KNVB Cup third round shootout defeat to Roda JC Kerkrade on 22 September 2010.

[2] Mokotjo was utilised mostly as a substitute and as a utility player by manager Ronald Koeman during the first half of the 2011–12 season,[7][2] which prompted the suggestion that he would leave the club in search of first team football.

[20] Despite some injury troubles,[21][22] he had a successful first season at the MAC³PARK Stadion, making 33 appearances, scoring two goals and winning the first silverware of his career, the KNVB Cup,[2][23] which qualified the club for the Europa League.

[25][26] Mokotjo's first appearance of the 2014–15 season turned out to be his last for the club, a 1–0 victory over Ajax in the 2014 Johan Cruyff Shield,[2] in which he set up Stef Nijland to score the Bluefingers' goal.

[2] On 7 July 2017, Mokotjo moved to England to join Championship club Brentford on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee,[36] reported to be €1 million.

[38] Despite admitting that he found it difficult to adjust to English football,[39] Mokotjo held down a starting spot throughout the early months of the campaign and by mid-December was ready "to take it to the next level".

[49] On 20 August 2020, Mokotjo moved to the United States to sign an undisclosed-length contract with Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati on a free transfer.

[2] In January 2022, it was reported that Mokotjo would return to FC Twente on trial,[55] but the arrangement was scuppered due to him requiring knee surgery.

[65] On 4 July 2024, Mokotjo signed an undisclosed-length contract with South African Premier Division club Cape Town City.

[66][3] He was a member of the South Africa U20 squad that competed at the 2009 U20 World Cup and he made one appearance at the tournament,[67] playing the opening 66 minutes of the team's 2–1 defeat to Ghana in the round of 16.

[69] He made five further appearances over the following three years before announcing his retirement from international football in April 2016,[69] citing "that current circumstances are not conducive to for me to break into the Bafana line-up".