Portia Modise
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| Full name | Portia Modise | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 20 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Soweto, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position |
Midfielder / Forward |
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| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| Soweto Rangers | |||||||||||||||
| Jomo Cosmos | |||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–? | Soweto Ladies | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Fortuna Hjørring | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012? | Palace Super Falcons | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Croesus Ladies | ||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 2000–2015 | South Africa | 124 | (101) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:38, 16 October 2010 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 April 2016 |
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Portia Modise (born 20 June 1983) is a South African women's footballer who was named Player of the Championship at the 2006 Women's African Football Championship. She represented the South Africa women's national football team at the 2012 London Olympics. She became the first African player to score 100 international goals.
Modise was born in Soweto and started playing football with the boys in her neighbourhood. She chose football ahead of netball at school, and began playing with Soweto Rangers at under–10 level. After playing for Rangers and the women's section of Jomo Cosmos, Modise moved to Soweto Ladies in 1996. She has two brothers.
Comfortable in either a midfield or forward role, Modise was nicknamed "Bashin" after the male footballer Albert "Bashin" Mahlangu. In the 2001–02 regular season, Modise scored 51 goals for Soweto Ladies, adding two more in the 4–0 National Championship final win over Cape Town Pirates.
In 2003 Modise was invited to trials with Arsenal Ladies. A dispute over sponsorship and funding left Modise and compatriots Toni Carelse and Veronica Phewa unable to sign for the English club despite impressing manager Vic Akers during the trials.
In 2005–06 Modise was employed by Orlando Pirates as an academy coach. She left after seven months in February 2006 following a disagreement with her boss Augusto Palacios.
In June 2007 Modise signed a two-year deal with Fortuna Hjørring in Denmark's Elitedivisionen, after impressing during an initial one-month contract. In South Africa she represented Orlando Pirates, Jomo Cosmos F.C. and Palace Super Falcons.
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