Teko Modise's book reveals shocking details about his life: I'm cursed, my marriage failed, I don't have a house
MULTI-AWARD-winning soccer star, Teko Modise, known on the pitch as 'The General', recently launched his tell-all book that reveals shocking details of his personal life and soccer career. The title on its own, The Curse Of Teko Modise, sparks curiosity and the shocking contents of his failed marriage, alcohol abuse, homelessness and fall out with his coach are a reader's treat. KNOWING REJECTION Throughout his soccer career, Teko (35) has been hogging headlines for different reasons in his personal life – like his failed marriage to Felicia Modise who has since changed her surname to Mokoena, his disastrous engagement to Lizelle Tabane which ended in her calling him gay, and him demanding his lobola back. In the book, Teko also talks about how he got used to being rejected at the age of eight when his father kicked him out of the house and his mother's family told him that they couldn't take him in. "I got used to being rejected. If it can happen ...