Segolame Boy

{{short description|Botswanan footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Segolame Boy

| image =

| fullname = Segolame Boy

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|11|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Serowe

| height = {{height|m=1.76}}

| position = Attacking midfielder, winger

| currentclub = Township Rollers

| clubnumber = 11

| youthclubs1 =

| youthyears1 =

| years1 = 2012–2014 | years2 = 2014–

| clubs1 = Miscellaneous | clubs2 = Township Rollers

| caps1 = | goals1 = | caps2 = | goals2 =

| nationalyears1 = 2014–

| nationalteam1 = Botswana

| nationalcaps1 = 32

| nationalgoals1 = 4{{Cite web|url=https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/soccer/segolame-boy/53987/|title=Segolame Boy - Soccer player profile & career statistics - Global Sports Archive|website=globalsportsarchive.com}}

}}

Segolame Boy (born 7 November 1992) is a Motswana footballer who plays as a midfielder for Township Rollers in the Botswana Premier League.

Segolame Boy was first spotted representing a Selibe-Phikwe local side in the constituency tournaments, the lowest level of Botswana football.[https://www.mmegi.bw/index.phpaid=66008&dir=2017/january/23]{{dead link|date=November 2019}} Having impressed talent scouts, he was signed by Serowe-based club Miscellaneous and would spend two seasons with them plying his trade in the Botswana Premier League. In 2014 he moved to Premier League giants Township Rollers and quickly became a mainstay in their first eleven, even attracting attention from the more lucrative South African Premier Division. In just five years with the Gaborone club Boy won four Premier League titles, a Mascom Top 8 Cup, and was part of the history-making Rollers squad which played in the 2018 CAF Champions League group stage, cementing his name in Rollers folklore.

International career

Boy made his Botswana debut aged 21 in 2014 under then coach Peter Butler (footballer, born 1966). Deployed as an attacking midfielder behind the strikers, he played the entire game as the Zebras lost 2–0 to Senegal in a 2015 AFCON qualifier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.news/latest-news/sundowns-monitoring-segolame-boy/8981/|title=Sundowns monitoring Segolame Boy|website=Botswana Gazette}}{{NFT player|57086|access-date=24 January 2025}}

Career Statistics

=International=

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year

National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="9"|Botswana

|2014

60
2015101
201630
201730
201830
201983
202140
202310
202450
colspan="2"|Total

!43

4

:Scores and results list Botswana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Boy goal.

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ List of international goals scored by Segolame Boy

scope="col"|No.

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Venue

!scope="col"|Opponent

!scope="col"|Score

!scope="col"|Result

!scope="col"|Competition

!scope="col" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

style="text-align:center"|1

|{{dts|30 May 2015}}

|Moruleng Stadium, Saulspoort, South Africa

|{{fb|Madagascar}}

|style="text-align:center"|1–2

|style="text-align:center"|1–2

|2015 COSAFA Cup

|{{Cite web|title=Botswana vs. Madagascar|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/13171/Botswana_Madagascar.html|website=National Football Teams|access-date=24 January 2025}}

style="text-align:center"|2

|{{dts|20 April 2019}}

|Lobatse Stadium, Lobatse, Botswana

|{{fb|Seychelles}}

|style="text-align:center"|2–0

|style="text-align:center"|2–0

|2020 African Nations Championship qualification

|{{Cite web|title=Botswana vs. Seychelles|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/22883/Botswana_Seychelles.html|website=National Football Teams|access-date=24 January 2025}}

style="text-align:center"|3

|{{dts|5 June 2020}}

|Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, South Africa

|{{fb|Lesotho}}

|style="text-align:center"|2–0

|style="text-align:center"|2–1

|2019 COSAFA Cup

|{{Cite web|title=Lesotho vs. Botswana|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/23174/Lesotho_Botswana.html|website=National Football Teams|access-date=24 January 2025}}

style="text-align:center"|4

|{{dts|3 August 2019}}

|National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka, Zambia

|{{fb|Zambia}}

|style="text-align:center"|2–1

|style="text-align:center"|2–3

|2020 African Nations Championship qualification

|{{Cite web|title=Zambia vs. Botswana|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/23782/Zambia_Botswana.html|website=National Football Teams|access-date=24 January 2025}}

Honours

=Club=

=Individual=

  • FUB Team of the Year: 2016{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundaystandard.info/galaxy-are-new-mascom-top-8-stars|title=Galaxy are the new Mascom Top 8 stars |website=www.sundaystandard.info}}

References