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Goble Park Stadium to be renamed after late Free State Stars boss Mike Mokoena

Free State Premier Sisi Ntombela has announced the government resolved to rename Goble Park Stadium after Mike Mokoena.

The late Free State Stars boss succumbed to cancer at a Johannesburg hospital last week and was laid to rest on Friday.

He was accorded a special provincial official funeral by South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa as a way of honouring the man who had been involved in football for 43 years.

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"We have resolved as the executive of the Free State provincial government to change the name of Goble Park Stadium to the Mike Mokoena Stadium," said Ntombela at Mokoena's funeral.