With all the goals that Bunene Ngaduane scored throughout his time at Qwa-Qwa Stars, the Congolese did so after having had a mere R300 as his first feel of the local currency instead of a signing-on fee in the thousands.
Ngaduane arrived in South Africa during the winter of 1993 and after a productive first spell with Qwa-Qwa Stars moved to Turkish club Ankaragucu in 1995.
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However, he would soon be back for his second spell, which lasted until the year 2000m by which time he had scored 79 goals for Stars.
From there, he had a short stay at Moroka Swallows, before being swallowed into the lower divisions and has now been working for an electrical supplier and distributor in Longmeadow, Johannesburg for the past 17 years.
"When I arrived in South Africa, I didn't even know which team I was coming to join because I think this is how it happened back then," Ngaduane tells KickOff.
"It was only after I heard my name being called out on the speaker that I came out to meet the late Jabu Khumalo, who was with Stars at the time.
"On the other side, there was someone who I then got to know later as Augusto Palacios.
"When I got to Qwa-Qwa, it was freezing because it was around June 1993 and in one of my earlier games, I remember scoring a brace against Orlando Pirates because I left like this was the team that had left me to come and play in this very cold place.
"Had I been at Pirates, I could have gotten better opportunities, including money, because at Stars we were paid little, but I had to accept it considering my circumstances.
"I was a guy who had come from Congo and just appreciated that I had been given a place to stay, which was better than what I had gone through in Congo.
"Before I even played my first game, I had not signed a contract, and the club told me that they had paid for everything.
"What I remember is that I was only given R300 to buy groceries to put in the fridge, and I just accepted and started playing.
"There was no signing-on fee, or a 10% cut from my transfer from the Congolese club, but I just accepted all the same because it was better than Congo.
"The good part was that I was able to put my mind into my game and scored goals.
"You see now, I'm also grateful that I have a job because I'm a humble man who didn't have pride of moving on after the end of my football career," says Ngaduane.