How Arsene Wenger was at one stage close to signing a teenage Anele Ngcongca at Arsenal

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Arsene Wenger was at one stage close to signing a teenage Anele Ngcongca at Arsenal‚ the Bafana Bafana player’s one-time agent and youth coach Colin Gie has said.

Bafana’s 2010 Fifa World Cup right-back stalwart‚ one of South Africa’s most successful football exports in a career in Belgium‚ died aged 33 in a car accident on the N2 outside Mtunzini on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Monday.Gie was the coach who spotted 13-year-old Gugulethu teen Ngcongca in a trial in 2001 for FC Fortune‚ the First Division club then associated to ex-Manchester United and Bafana midfielder Quinton Fortune.

“Unfortunately there was a bit of an issue with that club and the relationship with Arsenal broke down for whatever reason‚ and I had to find another avenue for him to get into Europe‚” Gie recalled. “After the trial Mr Gie said I didn’t have to return the second day‚ I just had to bring my birth certificate and two photos‚ I was in the team.

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