The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is mourning following the death of former general manager of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) and National Soccer League (NSL) Cyril Kobus.
The football administrator passed away in Johannesburg on Sunday morning aged 79. He was hospitalised following a cardiac arrest.
Kobus was part of the group, which broke away from the NPSL to form the NSL at the beginning of 1985.
“We learnt of the passing of one of the brain trusts in the formation of the National Soccer League in 1985, Mr Cyril Kobus. It happened six months apart from the demise of Mr Abdul Bhamjee. As the PSL, we extend our condolences to the son, Mr Mxolisi Kobus and the rest of the immediate and extended Kobus family. The football fraternity is poorer with the loss of such mammoth institutional memory,” a PSL statement read.
Kobus together with former NSL public relations officer, the late Abdul Bhamjee, were imprisoned for fraud more than 30 years ago.
