Brian Sebapole was a speedy winger who made his name in the colours of Jomo Cosmos during the mid-1990’s. Alongside Mozambicans Tico-Tico Bucuane and Nuro Amiro Tualibudine, the trio formed a deadly partnership for Ezenkosi. Like the late Philemon Masinga and Gesond Vilakazi – Dobsy also hails from Klerksdorp and was part of the Cosmos team that reached the 1996 Bob Save Super Bowl Final. In 1998, he had a short stint in the MLS where he played for San Jose Earthquakes before returning to the PSL.
Dobsy, welcome to the pages of Soccer Laduma. Just take us from the beginning of your career, where did it all begin for you?
Before I joined Jomo Cosmos, I wanted to join Kaizer Chiefs, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have money to go for trials at RAU (University of Johannesburg) where their team used to train. The day before I was supposed to attend trials, I walked around Klerksdorp looking for someone who could give me a lift and I couldn’t find anyone. Eventually I bumped into another drunk guy who told me not to worry, he was going to take me to RAU. I was so excited but the following day when I went to his house, I knocked and knocked, and this guy couldn’t wake up. When he finally woke up, he was in a drunken mess. He said to me: ‘Eish, I’m sorry, my brother took the car, and I can’t take you to Chiefs’. I was so disappointed, I felt horrible, I really felt horrible because I wanted to attend those trials so bad. And that is how I missed out on attending trials at Kaizer Chiefs.
