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Shane Jamal Schmidt, the talented midfielder for Tigers Football Club, has urged young footballers to prioritise growth and confidence-building over rushing to join bigger clubs too soon.<\/p>\n
The talented player, who now proudly represents the Shandumbala outfit in the topflight, specifically warned younger players about the risks of chasing big-name clubs without first solidifying their skills and confidence at grassroots and smaller teams.<\/p>\n
“Young players need to take their time. Play for small teams…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Shane Jamal Schmidt, the talented midfielder for Tigers Football Club, has urged young footballers to prioritise growth and confidence-building over rushing to join bigger clubs too soon. The talented player, who now proudly represents the Shandumbala outfit in the topflight, specifically warned younger players about the risks of chasing big-name clubs without first solidifying their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8559,11694,11916,6858,4706,724,257,14992,28767,254,6810,6653,7720],"class_list":["post-200978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-grow","tag-moves","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-personality","tag-schmidt","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-week","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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