The call for more young players in the Absa Premiership has been answered as a 16-year-old pens his first professional deal in South Africa’s top-flight... 

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It has been confirmed to the Siya crew that exciting young talent, Fuad Johnson, has signed a contract with Premier Soccer League side, Highlands Park, as he embarks upon the next step in his career.

The teenage striker, who spent time with the Two Oceans Academy and Old Mutual Academy in his home city of Cape Town, will be eager to show Owen da Gama what he is capable of as he takes aim at his senior debut before the season is out. 

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Johnson is being touted as one of the brightest young forwards in Mzansi at present, and could be called upon in the near future as talks of a Tendai Ndoro exit grow stronger.