Make it to one of Europe’s biggest football leagues and you shouldn’t ever have to work again, especially if you’re bringing back some of that ‘strong like bull’ foreign currency.

Not so if you plied your trade here in SA, which is why former Bafana Bafana striker Lungisani Ndlela has taken up working as a prison warden in Mpumalanga.

Brief statistic background – Ndlela played nine times for the national team, scoring three times. He also stands a mean two metres tall on the dot, making him one of local football’s tallest ever players.

Here’s more on the career change from the Daily Sun:

During his prime time as a hot-shot striker for Bafana Bafana, Moroka Swallows, SuperSport United and Mamelodi Sundowns, Lungisani used to be tightly policed by defenders on the pitch.

That was because he possessed a lethal left foot that wreaked havoc in the defence as he set to bang in goals in almost every match.

But after his fall from the top, Lungisani has turned to guarding some dangerous people in prison.