Posted on August 14, 2023
"The mark of a great captain is not just winning games but creating a winning culture," says the captain of the Tuks women's football team, Morongwa Manamela, as she takes the reins once again.
Posted on August 05, 2023
To make South Africa proud. That is the challenge Banyana Banyana are set for tomorrow when they clash against the Netherlands in the round of 16 of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. "What motivated us is to make history, remembering everyone back at home...
Posted on June 16, 2023
Years ago, kids regularly kicked around a plastic bottle. It might have looked like they were only fooling around. But they were not. There was always a football game that needed to be won. One seven-year-old girl's skills caught the attention of a teacher. Asa Rabalao of TuksFootball Women is...
Posted on June 09, 2023
Over the last five weekends, the TuksFootball Women’s team has made club history, registering two biggest victories of seven-nil and securing their fifth successive victory. In their last five encounters, they scored 21 goals and conceded only two. They twice notched up seven goals...
Posted on May 29, 2023
A few years back, Wendy Shongwe promised her dad she would take up football again after she finished matric at TuksSport High School and formed part of the TuksAthletics Academy. She kept her word. In 2021, she was back on the field. It did not take long for her natural talent to come to the...
Posted on May 18, 2023
Having reached the milestone of 100 caps playing for AmaTuks, Frank Mpedi can rightfully claim to have been there, done that and got the t-shirt to prove it, but he is not. To him, there is still that one main objective to accomplish. That is to help AmaTuks qualify to play Premier League...
Posted on February 23, 2023
Plants and football are the two things Ncamisile Shongwe is genuinely passionate about. Whether the PhD Horticultural Science student at Tuks is dirtying her hands in the soil or artfully dribbling the ball past football opponents does not matter. Her goal remains the same. She wants to make...
Posted on September 19, 2022
One thing that matters to the TuksFootball head coach, Maude Khumalo, is teamwork because it makes dream work. "You may have the most incredible number of individual stars, but the team won't amount to anything if they don't play as a team. It is often said that talent wins games, but teamwork...
Posted on September 05, 2022
Marco Giuricich might be a novice in playing Varsity Football, but from a Tuks perspective, he is slowly getting his rhythm and knowing what the tournament was all about. He is the one who scored the winning goal in the dying seconds against TUT in Round 5. It was undoubtedly a significant...
Posted on August 26, 2022
Nelson Mandela once said, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." These words will stand for the TuksFootball team in good stead next week when they face Wits in Round 7, the last round of the prelim phase. Tuks find themselves with their...
Posted on August 19, 2022
Keep your heads up is definitely the motto used by Tuks players in the 2022 Varsity Football edition. On Thursday, 18 August, Tuks secured a major a two-one Tshwane Derby victory against TUT in Round 5. Courtesy of Tuks goalscorers: Ntokozo Madela and Marco Giuricich. This was the third...
Posted on August 10, 2022
One thing which seemingly never changes in Varsity Football is that there will be a stage when Tuks is against the wall during the tournament. There is that one game they absolutely can't afford to lose because if they do, it is a near certainty that they not be in action in the playoffs....
Posted on July 27, 2022
The TuksFootball team will be out to prove that tough times don't last, but tough players do when they clash against UJ in their second encounter of the 2022 Varsity Football edition on Thursday, 28 July. Last week in Bloemfontein, things derailed in the game against UFS Kovsies. It led Tuks...
Posted on July 21, 2022
Revenge is a strong word, but it can be argued that it will be in the back of the minds of the Tuks players when they face Kovsies in their first encounter of the 2022 Varsity Football edition. There is a reason for it. Last year, Kovsies got the better of Tuks twice. The worst for Tuks was...
Posted on June 15, 2022
TuksFootball: “Playing as a goalkeeper means you got the best position on the field,” says Thakasani Mbanjwa, AmaTuks goalkeeper. 90 minutes of faultless football, or to be more exact, a draw, is what AmaTuks need if they want to secure the DStv Premiership promotion.
Posted on May 14, 2022
TuksFootball: “...we make up with passion and football savviness. We know how to play the game,” says Frank Mpedi of AmaTuks A home victory and at least three goals against the Hungry Lions, are needed if AmaTuks wants to secure a DStv Premiership promotion from the GladAfrica...
Posted on May 06, 2022
"I am who I am today due to the support and guidance I have received from the decision-makers of TuksFootball and UP,” says AmaTuks head coach and former captain Tlisane Motaung who is responsible for turning things around for team.
Posted on October 05, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks lost and gained status in the 2021 Women’s Varsity Football final and The statistics of the Varsity Women’s Football tournament will show that the Tuks women's football team lost to UWC in the 2021-final, but it is not always a true reflection of what happened...
Posted on October 03, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks to contest in the Varsity Women’s Football final for the second time in history Guts and determination led to tears, but in the end, it was all worth it as the Tuks women's football team booked their spot in Monday's Varsity Football tournament final. Tuks made...
Posted on October 01, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks qualifies for the semi-finals of the 2021 Women’s Varsity Football tournament in Pretoria For a few years, the Tuks women's football team has been one of the "invisible teams" during the Women’s Varsity Football tournament. They played, but their results got no...
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