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The club was named Dion Cosmos in its initial 1983 season, with the first part of the name representing the previous sponsor of Highlands Park and the second part being the fingerprint of Jomo Sono, who decided to name his newly bought club after his former NASL club, the New York Cosmos. Since 1984, the name of the club has been Jomo Cosmos. [1]
After his football career in the USA ended, Sono returned to South Africa, where he purchased the Highlands Park club in Johannesburg in 1982, renaming it Jomo Cosmos in honour of his old team. Under his ownership, the club went on to achieve several successes: it won the National Soccer League in 1987, the Bobsave Super Bowl in 1990, the Cola ...
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The Cosmos' commercial and on-field success declined during the early 1980s, along with the NASL itself, and after the league folded in 1984 the club dissolved a year later. [3] A new Cosmos team , formed in 2010, [ 4 ] is scheduled to begin play in the new second-tier North American Soccer League (contested since 2011) during the 2013 season.
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[2] [3] After Cosmos were relegated from the Premier Soccer League in the 2009–10 season, Phali announced he would remain with the club. [4] The next season, Phali won the National First Division title with the Cosmos. [5] In July 2011, Jomo Sono announced that he wanted Phali to become the Cosmos' goalkeeping coach after he retired from ...
He made his debut for Jomo Cosmos at the age of 16, [4] winning the 1987 National Soccer League in his first year at the club. In 1990, he had a trial at Rangers [5] with fellow Cosmos player Augustine Makalakalane, but the duo was not signed. Instead, both joined Swiss side FC Zürich.
He competed for the Namibia national football team from 1998 to 2004, with 11 caps, including the 1998 African Cup of Nations. [3] And Berlin Auchumeb was the hero with his stunning sudden-death extra-time winner against the giant nation of South Africa, Bafana Bafana in Windhoek (1998 COSAFA Cup) preliminary game.