Mere reveals dressing room slap from Mambush Mudau
Mere (41) retired from professional football last year after 22 years. He played for teams like Sundowns, Platinum Stars and Moroka Swallows.
During the Prime Sport with Mahlatse podcast, the former Sundowns star shared stories about his early days with the team, revealing how he and Lerato Chabangu often drank until midnight in Tembisa.
'I was staying with Lerato Chabangu in Midrand, so we got accommodation and it's a three-bedroom flat. Lerato Chabangu is from Tembisa, I'm from Bloemfontein, so no one was going to tell Ace 'sleep my boy' because we are almost the same age,' Mere said.
'What used to happen was that Ace would go to Tembisa. He would call me and ask us to wash our cars in Tembisa. Once we got there, everybody knew us and we would relax and drink six, 12 or 18 beers before going back home around midnight.'
Mere said he and Chabangu would party until late, even though they had training the next morning.
'It started becoming a habit and we were often intoxicated at training, but the team was winning and we were getting away with it,' he said.
'Mambush (Mudau) started realising that we were coming to training not in a good state and he called me in, yoh,' Mere added. 'At some point, we got a hiding from Mambush in the dressing room. Yoh, the grootman slapped us.
'You know what he did to Charles Motlohi. It wasn't a mistake, the grootman can clap. He believed in us and he (Mudau wanted to help us before the situation got to the coaches and management,' Mere said.
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