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name: Mpho Moloi
position: M height: 5-9 weight:155 Birthdate: May 20, 1983 Hometown: Storrs, CT last club: |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats |
| year | team | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2007 | Houston | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Outlook
A tenacious, hard-working central midfielder, Mpho is a player who makes the simple pass and breaks up plays in midfield.
MLS Experience
2006: Reserves: Played in nine games and started eight … Had one assist.
College
2005: Named to All-Big East First Team and earned Big East Midfielder of the Year honors … 2004: Named to All-Big East Second Team… 2003: Named to All-Big East Third Team.
High School
Played for St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, NJ … Won mythical high school national championship in 2001, his senior season … Awarded the team’s Golden Senior Award as a senior for “dedication, spirit and knowledge.”
Youth
Played for Transnet Sports School of Excellence, a soccer academy in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Personal
Graduated from University of Connecticut in 3½ years with anthropology degree … Plans to get a master’s in education and teach … If not playing soccer, would play cricket because that’s what he played at primary school in Soweto … Lives in Soweto with mother Maria and father Alfred … Started playing soccer at six years old in the streets of Soweto … Lists favorite move as “Dumb and Dumber” … Favorite athletes are Claude Makelele of France “because he is simple and effective and is the best in his position as a holding midfielder” and Italian soccer star Roberto Baggio because he was “smooth with the ball and can score goals” … Likes Houston weather, and dislikes Houston traffic … Loves reggae music as well as reading and movies … Has two sisters, Tebo and Tsatsi, and a brother, Neo … Speaks four languages — Sotho, Zulu, Afrikaans and English, and is interested in other languages and other cultures … .Says soccer in Africa is slower than in the US: “In South Africa, players are more technical and the pace is slower than American soccer. In the US soccer is fast and physical.”
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