{"id":29765,"date":"2023-11-12T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football.supersportschools.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2023-11-12T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T07:22:39","slug":"spurs-teenager-baartman-opens-his-dstv-premiership-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=29765","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; teenager Baartman opens his DStv Premiership account"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1675\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1675\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/luke-baartman-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Town Spurs' teenage striker Luke Baartman is turning heads with his stellar goal-scoring exploits. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Town Spurs&#8217; teenage striker Luke Baartman is turning heads with his stellar goal-scoring exploits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teenager <strong>Luke Baartman <\/strong>announced his arrival on the big stage on Wednesday night when he became the second youngest goal-scorer in the <strong>DStv Premiership <\/strong>with a 90th minute goal against <strong>Kaizer Chiefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chiefs won the game 3-2,\u00a0but that didn\u2019t take the shine out of the young man\u2019s night.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old striker, who has less than a handful of senior appearances to his name, is one of the most talked about young players in the country.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival on the big stage is a boost for South African football, which is seeing a number of talented teenagers being given opportunities in the top-flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mamelodi Sundowns&#8217; Siyabonga Mabena<\/strong>, just 16, became the youngest goal-scorer in the league earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cape Town Spurs\u2019 Technical Director Sean Connor<\/strong> lauded Luke Baartman for his brief appearance in the team\u2019s 2-1 win over Orlando Pirates on 2 November.<\/p>\n<p>Baartman, who has been the subject of significant discussion in recent weeks, ever since being brought in to train with the Spurs first team, has grabbed his chances with both hands.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his promotion, Baartman had enjoyed a stellar start to the <strong>DStv Diski Challenge<\/strong> season, finding the back of the net six times in just five matches.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the striker played a crucial role for the Spurs\u2019 u18 team, scoring the deciding goal in his side&#8217;s 2-1 victory over <strong>Matroosfontein FC<\/strong> in the <strong>Coke Cup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Luke Baartman announced his arrival on the big stage on Wednesday night when he became the second youngest goal-scorer in the DStv Premiership with a 90th minute goal against Kaizer Chiefs. Chiefs won the game 3-2,\u00a0but that didn\u2019t take the shine out of the young man\u2019s night. The 17-year-old striker, who has less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":29542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}