Siyabonga Eugene Nomvethe (/nɒmˈvɛteɪ/; born 2 December 1977) is a South African former professional soccer player who played as a forward.
[3] Nomvethe represented the South Africa national team from his debut on 6 May 1999, and he played in the 2002 and 2010 World Cups.
Nomvethe started playing as a striker for the Durban-based lower league club Durban Cosmos in 1994,[5] from which he moved to Claremont Blizzards.
Nomvethe was put in place of Pollen Ndlanya who left the team and score 22 goals in all competition including three in the BobSave Super Bowl to help Chiefs win their first silverware of the new millennium.
He scored his last goal on 24 April 2001 in a 5–0 win over Bloemfontein Celtic in a BobSave Super Bowl quarter final in the 65th minute which was his 58th for Chiefs.
[9] Following two unsuccessful years at Udinese, Nomvethe was loaned out to smaller Italian clubs Salernitana Calcio and Empoli from January 2004 to June 2005.
[12] He then permanently left Udinese in December 2005, moved back to South Africa, signing on for Orlando Pirates.
[14] In 2009, Nomvethe moved back to South Africa to join Moroka Swallows, rivals of the two soweto giants, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates he represented during his domestic career.
1980) on 6 July 2002[20] in a secret Zulu traditional wedding ceremony at KwaMashu D-section township outside Durban which was attended only by relatives and a few people from the local community.
The angry star even threatened to kill the writer of a City Press article and said "I don't want to spill blood, but I will be forced to.