Ndlela: There's room for the tall, ball-holding striker in modern game: SA’s lack of penetrative strikers is well-documented. The nation is not producing forwards that are as dominant as those of yesteryear, with the tall striker no longer being a…
The tallest striker SA has produced is former Bafana Bafana international Lungisani Ndlela, who stood at a towering 2m. In his heyday, he played for Moroka Swallows, SuperSport United and Mamelodi Sundowns.
Ndlela, who understands what it feels like to stand tall alone, believes that players who have similar traits to him are still around but are not given a platform. A tall striker attacking a cross inside the box is poetry in motion, nowadays we hardly see it as goals steam from build-up play phases. Services to the box for strikers don’t come, even when they call for a cross and have a run-up, they don’t get the ball as it’s likely to hit the first defender. Even though heading is their strong suit, tall strikers can also offer hold-up play and link with others but they prefer to be inside the 18-yard area where the action is. “The PSL has changed.
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