Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jacinta Rethabile Nthabeleng Modiko | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 July 1986 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kroonstad | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | UJ Ladies F.C. (head coach) South Africa U/17 (head coach) | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
University of the Free State | ||||||||||||||
Bloemfontein Celtics Ladies | ||||||||||||||
2008- | University of Johannesburg | |||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
South Africa | 30 | |||||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
2017-2021 | University of the Witwatersrand | |||||||||||||
2022- | University of Johannesburg | |||||||||||||
2024- | South Africa U/17 | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jacinta Rethabile Nthabeleng Modiko (born 20 July 1986) is South African professional soccer manager and former player. She is the current head coach of UJ Ladies. She's a former Banyana Banyana captain.
Modiko captained the South African women's national team at the 2010 African Women's Championship where they won a bronze medal. [1]
In 2017, she was appointed the coach of the University of the Witwatersrand women's team Wits Ladies [2] In 2019, she made her Sasol Women's League debut with the team and guided them to a top five finish. In her final season with the team, in 2021, she finished third in the league. [3]
In 2022, she was announced as the UJ Ladies team's assistant coach. [1] In August 2022, she took over as head coach. [4]
In 2024, she took over the South Africa women's national under-17 team as head coach for the second round qualifiers for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup qualifiers. [5] The side lost 3-0 on aggregate to Ethiopia and exited the qualifiers. [6]
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