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Soccer Laduma
|October 09, 2025
RHULANI MANZINI - PHALABORWA UNITED
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Hola Rhulani, thanks for making time to have a chat with us this week.
You are no stranger to being on In Touch because you shared some stories with us a few years ago. Since you know what In Touch is all about, so we can get straight into it...
We had a physical trainer while I was at Magesi FC. He was from Brazil. His name is Pedro Piccarro. He's a character who was always teasing people. That's what I remember most from my time at the club. There was a time when he bought a camera to record training. I think he bought it from Temu, ha, ha, ha. I was teasing him because it was too small and I was telling him that he bought it from Temu, ha, ha, ha. You should have seen that camera. He was on my case for the whole week, but otherwise he was a great guy, and I enjoyed working with him.
Ha, ha, ha. Did he try to use that camera to take any footage of training?
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