Goalkeeper Tando Velaphi made a return to Perth Glory after 7 years absence by signing a one-year deal with the A-League club.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old made more than 70 appearances for Glory in his first stint at the club between 2007 and 2011\u00a0after making his A-League debut for Queensland Roar.<\/p>\n
Velaphi also played abroad, spending two seasons in Japan with Shonan Bellmare.<\/p>\n
His arrival at Glory is expected to stir up a battle with Liam Reddy for the No.1 jersey at Glory.<\/p>\n
“The project here at Glory is something that I’m really excited for and I didn’t have to think twice about coming back,” Velaphi said to Hyundai A-League website<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Personally I\u2019m going to push as hard as I can for the number one position. There\u2019s going to be a lot of competition for spots and that can only benefit the team as it will mean everyone\u2019s being pushed to their limits. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about at this level.<\/p>\n “Hopefully everyone from front to back can work together in unison and push towards something really special for the club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Goalkeeper Tando Velaphi made a return to Perth Glory after 7 years absence by signing a one-year deal with the A-League club. The 31-year-old made more than 70 appearances for Glory in his first stint at the club between 2007 and 2011\u00a0after making his A-League debut for Queensland Roar. Velaphi also played abroad, spending two seasons in Japan with Shonan Bellmare. His arrival at Glory is expected to stir up a battle with Liam Reddy for the No.1 jersey at Glory. “The project here at Glory is something that I’m really excited for and I didn’t have to think twice about coming back,” Velaphi said to Hyundai A-League website. “Personally … Continue reading “Goalkeeper Tando Velaphi make a return to Perth Glory after 7 years absence”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":14172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,217,1600,228],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-perth-glory","tag-tando-velaphi","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}