Time up for Marumo in Egypt

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JOHANNESBURG: Botswana international goalkeeper Modiri Marumo could come back home to rejoin BDF XI when the curtain comes down on the Egyptian Premier League.

 The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has banned foreign goalkeepers from playing in the domestic league after national coach Hassan Shehata repeatedly bemoaned the lack of quality custodians in the North African country. "We will allow the current foreign goalkeepers in the Egyptian league to see out their contracts but they will not be able to extend them," the EFA said in a statement on their website late last year. Marumo plays for Alexandria-based outfit Haras El-Hodood. The club will be hard hit by the ban as two of its favoured goalkeepers are foreigners. Cameroonian, Mathurin Kameni, brother of Espanyol's Carlos, is the club's first choice with Marumo who joined in 2008 as his deputy.

 "It is quite difficult because at my club, we are two foreign goalkeepers and the other guy is the first choice. So I will have to make a move. As I speak, two foreign goalkeepers from other clubs have already left and I am likely to be the third. So I need to look for another team because the EFA no longer wants foreign goalkeepers in their league," Marumo told Mmegi Sport from his Cairo base.

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