Boebie Solomons
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abubakaar Solomons | ||
| Date of birth | 22 March 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Glendene | |||
| Cape Town Spurs | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1998 | South Africa U20 | ||
| 2002 | Santos (caretaker) | ||
| 2003–2004 | Santos | ||
| 2004–2005 | Maritzburg United | ||
| 2005–2007 | Bidvest Wits | ||
| 2007–2008 | Black Leopards | ||
| 2008 | Winners Park | ||
| 2009–2011 | Santos | ||
| 2013–2014 | Polokwane City | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Abubakaar "Boebie" Solomons (born 22 March 1955 in Cape Town) is a South African football coach who last coached Premier Soccer League club Polokwane City. He is one of the few footballing coaches in the country to have won winners medals for both the PSL league title (as assistant to Gordon Igesund at Santos) and the Mvela Golden League (as head coach with Bidvest Wits). He has also coached South Africa at under-20 level.
Solomons played as a midfielder for Glendene and Cape Town Spurs during his playing career. He was known by the nickname "Asem" (the Afrikaans word for "breath") due to his impressive stamina and work rate.
Solomons moved into coaching shortly after retiring from playing, and joined the coaching staff at Santos for the first time in the late 1980s. In 1998, he was appointed head coach of the South Africa under-20 team. He then joined Santos in 1999, where he initially worked as a youth coach, before becoming involved with the coaching of the senior team in 2000. He was appointed as the club's caretaker-coach on several occasions, including a spell in 2002 where the club won the BP Top Eight Cup, before being appointed as permanent head coach in 2003 following the resignation of Muhsin Ertugral. He went on to lead the team to the final of the ABSA Cup, where Santos defeated Ajax Cape Town 2–0. In October 2004, he was sacked due to the team's poor performances in the CAF Confederation Cup.
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