Surprise Moriri

Surprise Moriri
Personal information
Full name	Surprise Mohlomolleng Moriri
Date of birth	20 March 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Matibidi, South Africa
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder; Second striker
Youth career
	Wattville Watford Brothers
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2004	Silver Stars
2004–2016	Mamelodi Sundowns
2016–2017	Highlands Park
Total
International career
2003–2010	South Africa
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2017

Surprise Mohlomolleng Moriri (born 20 March 1980 in Matibidi, Mpumalanga) is a South African former professional footballer who used to play as a midfielder or striker. He also represented South Africa as an international and amassed 34 caps during his time with the South Africa national team from 2003-2010.

Club career

Moriri was a free-scoring midfielder who was chosen as South Africa's PSL Player of the Season in 2005–06. He usually played as a second striker or behind the striker as a supporting or shadow striker. He was also deployed on the right side of midfield. He scored 12 goals in all competitions (11 in the league) to be Sundowns' top scorer and help the 'Brazilians' to their first league title since 2000.

In the 2006–07 season he eclipsed that amount, once again scoring eleven league goals to go along with three in the CAF Champions League.

The 2007–08 season was a less prolific league campaign for him in which he only managed three league goals. However, he was more successful in other competitions that season, scoring two Nedbank Cup goals, one MTN 8 goal, one Tekom Knockout goal, and four CAF Champions League, a total of 11 cup goals.

On 18 June 2007, Sundowns played a friendly against FC Barcelona in South Africa. Moriri scored within one minute and 30 seconds to make it 1–0. After many missed chances from both teams, Barcelona eventually went on to win the game 2–1 after two late goals from substitutes Santiago Ezquerro and Marc Crosas Luque.

International career

Moriri made his debut in a friendly match against Lesotho on 8 October 2003.

He scored his first goal for South Africa in their 3–0 win over Chad in the MTN Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

He was in the South African squad for the 2008 African Nations Cup.

He was part of the Bafana Bafana squad for the 2010 World Cup, coming off the bench against Uruguay.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2007-03-24	Ndjamena, Chad	Chad	1–0	3–0	African Nations Cup qualifier
2	2008-03-26	Atteridgeville, South Africa	Paraguay	1–0	3–0	Friendly
3	2008-06-07	Atteridgeville, South Africa	Equatorial Guinea	2–1	4–1	WCQ
4	2010-04-28	Berlin, Germany	Jamaica	2–0	2–0	Friendly
5	2010-05-31	Polokwane, South Africa	Guatemala	3–0	5–0	Friendly