Brett Evans (born 8 March 1982 in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

) is a South African

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who played for

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club

Ajax Cape Town Cape Town Spurs F.C. (formerly known as Ajax Cape Town) is a South African professional football club based in Parow in the city of Cape Town that plays in the National First Division. Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax was their parent club and m ...

. Evans was a founding member of

and played for Ajax for the whole of his 13-year career. Brett Evans is currently the head coach for boys youth a
Albion SC
as well as assistant coach at

Point Loma Nazarene University Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college with its main campus on the Point Loma oceanfront in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene. ...

Ajax Cape Town

Evans was a founding member of

making his debut in 1999. He played for Ajax for the whole of his 13-year career and has 311 starts which is a club record. In 2012, Evans went on trial with

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club

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and played in a 2–0 win over

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in a reserve team match. Evans suffered knee and groin injuries and left Ajax in 2012 on expiration of his contract.

International career

He is one of the few South African player s to have played for all the national teams and was also part of South Africa's squad at the

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. He has ten full international caps.

Coaching career

While playing left back at Ajax CT, Evans was assistant coach for the youth u12 team, from 2010 to 2012. He is currently head coach at Albion SC and assistant coach at Point Loma Nazarene University.

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* 1982 births South African soccer players South Africa international soccer players 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players Living people Soccer players from Johannesburg Cape Town Spurs F.C. players Association football defenders White South African people South African people of British descent {{SouthAfrica-footy-bio-stub