Augusto Palacios Apprentice Academy

Happy Happy Birthday Prof Palacios! May you have a beautiful and successful year ahead.

Feliz cumpleaños Prof Palacios! Le deseamos un hermoso nuevo año. 🎉🎉🥳🥳🎂🎂

This Saturday 29 November we celebrated the 2025 achievements at our Augusto Palacios Apprentice Academy closing ceremony.

We were honoured by the presence of APAA alumni Joseph Makhanya as our guest of honour.

We were also grateful for all the parents and families that came to support us on Saturday.

Our U15s and U17s were also celebrated as winners of the SAFA LFA Johannesburg league.

Our U12s and U16s were runners-up and winners respectively of the SAFA Greater Mayfair LFA Cup.

I also wish to congratulate my whole technical staff and administrators for very successful 2025.

Lastly we had 7 players promoted to the APAA development. Best of luck in showcasing their talent in 2026

Thank you to all the players and their families for 2025. Registration is now open for our 2026 season. We will beat JSS at our usual times. You can always call Ricardo our admin at 0829777335

Wishing best of luck to 3 alumni in the U17 South African team taking part in the

Tumi Mothapo, Kamohelo Mareletse and Teboho Mlangeni will be flying the flag high, not only for 🇿🇦 but the Augusto Palacios Apprentice Academy.

Best of luck gents 💪🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦⚽️⚽️

The third edition of the Augusto Palacios Cup is coming. Registrations are open for the month of July.

What is the role of the Sporting Director- have a look at a really insightful podcast with Prof Augusto Palacios and Junior Khanye

https://youtu.be/Pz6k0v02mdQ?si=bcljw_Zp8G19JTmQ

We have been advised by several of our players and people not affiliated to APAA that there is this person and number who has been scamming people using Prof Augusto Palacios’ name.
We do not know this person nor is he associated with APAA

Follow my grandson’s club cricket journey at . Thank you for the support 🏏🏏

The APAA consistently contributes to the development and success of SA football. This squad has 3 APAA alumni

⚽️ Tumi Bowes - Orlando Pirates
⚽️ Tebogo Mlangeni - Kaiser Chiefs
⚽️ Kamohelo Maraletse - Mamelodi Sundowns

All 3 players spent their early soccer careers at APAA and they went onto secure places at the youth divisions of the top 3 teams in South Africa. Well done boys. Always proud of you

Wishing all of our players, parents, staff, supporters and friends a Blessed and Prosperous 2025.

Remember to not drink and drive. Enjoy this time with family and friends but do not to overdo the celebrations as pre-season training should continue or kickstart from early January.

Stay fit, stay strong, remain committed to your goals abs dreams

Huge congratulations to our long standing member Njabulo Msimanto who was celebrated by his school Hoërskool Jan Viljoen where he was awarded top goal scorer and best soccer player at his school for the third year running. Njabulo has been with the since he was 10 years old. May you continue to grow and achieve ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️