Sono has said he would like to be contracted until after the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.

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In the city's Condesa neighborhood, Alfredo Sono Dillman whiled away the days watching movies on a home computer.

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An affidavit by former Bafana Bafana coach Jomo Sono, who owned a share in the players, told of the huge profit the pair made from the sales.

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After accomplishing everything that he set out to do at home club Orlando Pirates, Sono starred for the New York Cosmos, Colorado Caribous and Toronto Blizzard in the United States.

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Themba Sono, a professor at the University of Pretoria's management school, suggests that the programme would accelerate if ordinary South Africans supported it, which at the moment they do not.

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"So many of today's South African players would have heard a lot about Jomo Sono but many wouldn't have seen him in action apart from a few snippets of TV highlights, " Allie added.

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Meanwhile Jomo Sono, who has coached the team on an ad hoc basis at the 1998 Nations Cup and the 2002 World Cup has made himself available for the job on a full time basis.

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On his return to South Africa after his retirement, Sono bought the Highlands Park Club in Johannesburg in 1982 and renamed it Jomo Cosmos in honor of his old team in New York, before becoming coach of the South African national side.

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