Lesia Thetsane in action for Lesotho's Under-20 national team in 2016 |
The offers are
from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri and the pair will make their move
later in the year.
Thetsane and Makoanyane
left Lesotho for the US in August 2016 to spend two years playing football on
fully-funded scholarships at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri.
The players
have since enjoyed success at State Fair, both academically and on the playing
field.
In 2017 Thetsane
earned All-Region first team and Missouri Community College Athletic Conference
(MCCAC) all-conference first team honours while Makoanyane earned MCCAC
all-conference first team honours. Lesia scored three goals and led State Fair
with eight assists while Mako was the team’s top goalscorer with 10 goals
including two game winners.
In August
2018, Lesia and Mako will again make the step up academically and on the
football pitch with the move to Columbia.
The Columbia
College Cougars Men’s Soccer team ended last season ranked seventh in the US
from close to 200 colleges in the NAIA Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Postseason
Poll. Columbia finished the year with a
regular season record of 19 wins, two losses and three draws and only lost in
the playoffs in a penalty shoot-out to the eventual national champions.
Columbia’s coach
is John Klein who has been in charge since 2000. He played college soccer with
Duke and St Louis and played professionally in the U.S.
Klein said he believes
Lesia and Makoanyane can make a big contribution to the Cougars’ success in
2018 and beyond.
Although still
in the early stages of planning their moves to Columbia, Lesia currently
intends to major in Business and Makoanyane in Environmental Science. They will
both report to Columbia for pre-season training and the start of the college
year in August.
Thetsane moved
to the US after enjoying an impressive 2015/16 campaign with Kick4Life.
The left
footer was nominated for the young player of the season award after the season but
eventually lost to current LMPS striker Roboama Koloti.
Both Makoanyane
and Thetsane have been capped at Under-20 level for Lesotho but are yet to don
the Likuena jersey.
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