Tanzanian champions Young Africans have announced the signing of the Premier Soccer League’s record scorer Peter Shalulile, who Mamelodi Sundowns released at the end of last season.
No details were given of the contract terms as the Dar-es-Salaam club made the announcement on social media, but it reunites the Namibian goal ace with former coach Manqoba Mngqithi, who took over at the club earlier this month.
The pair were together when Mngqithi was first an assistant coach to Pitso Mosimane at Sundowns, then co-coach with Rulani Mokwena and later head coach on his own before being fired in December 2024.
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Young Africans have a multi-national squad with the Namibian joining players from Tanzania as well as Angola, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Uganda and Zimbabwe on the books of the club.
Shalulile, who will be 33 in October, departs the PSL after 10 seasons, nine of them in the top flight where he amassed a record 134 league and cup goals in the colours of Highlands Park and Sundowns.
Early last season he broke the previous record of Siyabonga Nomvete but got little game time for Sundowns in the second half of the season as the club went onto win the African Champions League.
There is every chance Shalulile could have quick reunion with Sundowns as Yanga are also in the field for this season’s Champions League and fancied, as is the Pretoria club, to make it through the preliminary knockout rounds and into the group phase.
Last season Yanga finished third in their Champions League group behind Cairo giants Al Ahly and eventual runners-up Royal Armed Forces from Morocco.
Several Betway Premiership sides made enquiries about signing Shalulile, who as a free agent would have demanded a hefty signing on fee and salary but come without his new club having to pay a transfer fee.
Attempts by local clubs to sign him were thwarted by Shaluile’s desire to join a club elsewhere on the continent.