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{{Short description|South African soccer player (born 1967)}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Doctor Khumalo
| image = 
| fullname = Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo<ref name="NFT">{{NFT player|1095|access-date=5 March 2021}}</ref>
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|06|26}}
| birth_place = [[Soweto]], South Africa
| height = {{convert|1.85|m|order=flip}}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/doctor-khumalo/ |title=Doctor Khumalo |publisher=MLS |access-date=16 October 2023}}</ref>
| position = [[Midfielder#Central midfielder|Central Midfielder]]
| currentclub  = [[Baroka F.C.|Baroka]] (technical director)<ref>[http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/PSL/doctor-khumalo-takes-on-baroka-technical-director-job-20170817 Doctor  Khumalo takes on Baroka technical director job]. sport24.co.za. 17 August 2017.</ref>
| clubnumber =
| youthyears1 = 1984–1985 | youthclubs1 = [[Moroka Swallows]]
| youthyears2 = 1986      | youthclubs2 = [[Kaizer Chiefs]]
| years1 = 1987–2004 | clubs1 = [[Kaizer Chiefs]]               | caps1 = 397 | goals1 = 75
| years2 = 1995      | clubs2 = → [[Ferro Carril Oeste]] (loan) | caps2 = 4   | goals2 = 1
| years3 = 1996–1997 | clubs3 = → [[Columbus Crew]] (loan)      | caps3 = 43  | goals3 = 5
| totalcaps = 444 | totalgoals = 81
| nationalyears1 = 1992–2001 | nationalteam1 = [[South Africa national football team|South Africa]] | nationalcaps1 = 50 | nationalgoals1 = 9
}}

'''Theophilus Doctorson Khumalo'''  (born 26 June 1967) is a former South African professional [[Association football|footballer]]. Popularly nicknamed '''''Doctor''''' for his tactical acumen, he was a renowned [[midfielder]] for [[Kaizer Chiefs]] and the [[South Africa national football team|South African national team]].

==Career==
Having started playing football in 1984 with Swallows Reserves, Khumalo then went to Kaizer Chiefs, where he initially played for the junior team. His father, [[Eliakim Khumalo]], a renowned player of the 1970s and early 1980s, served as his mentor. Khumalo was promoted to the senior team by coach [[Ted Dumitru]] the following year, when he started a game against arch rivals [[Orlando Pirates Football Club|Orlando Pirates]].

Khumalo went on to become a star player for Kaizer Chiefs and did not play for any other South African football club, only leaving them for short overseas playing periods – he signed with FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who first took him to [[Argentina|Argentinian]] club [[Ferro Carril Oeste]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://laferropedia.com/jugador-653/|title=LaFerropedia|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref> for six months in 1995, while in 1996 and 1997 he played for the [[Columbus Crew]] of [[Major League Soccer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/doctor-khumalo|title=Doctor Khumalo &#124; MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref>

The high-point of Khumalo's football career was the 1990s; he was part of the Kaizer Chiefs teams that won three South African league championship titles and five knockout trophies and was also voted South African Footballer of the Year in 1992. During his career at the club, he played in a total of 397 league and cup games, scoring 75 goals.

After the re-admission of [[South Africa national football team|South Africa]] to [[FIFA]] in 1992, Khumalo was selected to be a member of the South African squad for its first official international match in July of the same year, against [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]]. South Africa won the match 1–0, due to a penalty scored by Khumalo. He was also a leading member of the winning South African national team at the [[1996 African Nations Cup]]. He also represented South Africa in the [[1998 Football World Cup]]. Throughout his whole international career, he played for South Africa 50 times (twice as captain), scoring nine goals<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/zaf-recintlp.html|title=South Africa - International Appearances|website=[[RSSSF]]|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref> making him the 13th most capped South African footballer.

One of Doctor Khumalo's most memorable games was perhaps the 1996 Mandela Cup match, where South Africa played against [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]. [[Phil Masinga]] scored the first goal from Doctor Khumalo's corner kick. Khumalo then scored the second goal to make the score 2–0 in favour of the South Africans. Unfortunately for Bafana, Brazil came back in the second half, scoring three goals, to win the encounter 3–2.

He retired in 2002 and then in 2004 as a player-coach. Although he was a winning co-coach (with Donald "Ace" Khuse) of Kaizer Chiefs in the 2002–2003 season (guiding the club to a 12-game unbeaten record and earning themselves a joint Coach of the Month [[Premier Soccer League (South Africa)|PSL]] award), Khumalo has stated that his aim is to become a football administrator. Since 2004, Khumalo served as a television football commentator and presenter, being named afterwards South African Under-17 national coach.

Khumalo was voted 62nd in the [[SABC3's Great South Africans|Top 100 Great South Africans]] in 2004.

==Coaching career==
He has a [[South African Football Association|SAFA]] Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 coaching licences, an [[English Football Association]] licence which he got in 2005 and a [[UEFA]] B licence through the [[German Football Federation]] in 2007. He previously worked as head coach for the [[Kaizer Chiefs]] Under-17s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kaizerchiefs.com/Default.asp?cid=13804 |title=..:: Kaizer Chiefs :: |access-date=14 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216070515/http://www.kaizerchiefs.com/Default.asp?cid=13804 |archive-date=16 December 2008 }}</ref>

==Acting career==
Khumalo made his film acting debut with the German/South African production Themba.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thembathemovie.com/|title=Themba The Movie – DIY Blog|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref> He plays himself as the coach of the under 21s. The movie is about Themba, a young and ambitious football youth, who is faced with poverty, AIDS and violence, but eventually makes his way on to the South African national team. The film is based on a novel by Lutz van Dijk and premiered at the Berlinale 2010.

==Career statistics==
===International goals===
:''Scores and results list South Africa's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Khumalo goal''.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Doctor Khumalo<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf-intres1995.html|title=South Africa - International Matches 1992-1995|website=[[RSSSF]]|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf-intres2000.html|title=South Africa - International Matches 1996-2000|website=[[RSSSF]]|accessdate=5 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
!scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Venue
!scope="col"|Opponent
!scope="col"|Score
!scope="col"|Result
!scope="col"|Competition
|-
|align="center"|1
|{{dts|7 July 1992}}
|[[Kings Park Stadium]], [[Durban]], South Africa
|{{fb|CMR}}
|align="center"|1–0 
|align="center"|1–0 
|[[Friendly match|Friendly]]
|-
|align="center"|2
|{{dts|10 May 1994}}
|[[Ellis Park Stadium|Ellis Park]], [[Johannesburg]], South Africa
|{{fb|ZAM}}
|align="center"|2–0 
|align="center"|2–1 
|Friendly
|-
|align="center"|3
|{{dts|13 November 1994}}
|[[Independence Stadium (Zambia)|Independence Stadium]], [[Lusaka]], Zambia
| {{fb|ZAM}}
|align="center"|1–0 
|align="center"|1–1 
|AFCON Qualifier
|-
|align="center"|4
|{{dts|29 November 1994}}
|[[Loftus Versfeld]], [[Pretoria]], South Africa
|{{fb|GHA}}
|align="center"|2–0 
|align="center"|2–1 
|Simba Cup
|-
|align="center"|5
|{{dts|26 April 1995}}
|[[Setsoto Stadium]], [[Maseru]], Lesotho
|{{fb|LES|1987}}
|align="center"|1–0
|align="center"|3–1
|Friendly
|-
|align="center"|6
|{{dts|13 May 1995}}
|Ellis Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
|{{fb|ARG}}
|align="center"|1–0
|align="center"|1–1
|Friendly
|-
|align="center"|7
|{{dts|30 September 1995}} 
|[[FNB Stadium]], Johannesburg, South Africa
|{{fb|MOZ}}
|align="center"|3–2
|align="center"|3–2
|Friendly
|-
|align="center"|8
|{{dts|24 April 1996}}
|FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
|{{fb|BRA}}
|align="center"|2–0
|align="center"|2–3
|[[Friendly match|Friendly]]
|-
|align="center"|9
|{{dts|27 April 1997}}
|[[Stade de Kégué]], [[Lomé]], Togo
|{{fb|ZAI}}
|align="center"|1–0
|align="center"|2–1
|[[1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|}

== Honors ==
'''Individual'''

* [[MLS All-Star Game|MLS All-Star]]: [[1996 MLS All-Star Game|1996]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/all-star/news/article/2011/07/12/all-star-game-flashback-1996-east-wins-inaugural-event|title=All-Star Game flashback, 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228152403/http://www.mlssoccer.com/all-star/news/article/2011/07/12/all-star-game-flashback-1996-east-wins-inaugural-event|archive-date=December 28, 2014|work=MLSsoccer.com}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://about-south-africa.com/html/doctor_khumalo.html Doctor Khumalo]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120726142802/http://www.futbolxxi.com/Futbolista.aspx?ID=5915&SEOFutbolista=Khumalo+Doctor+Theophilus Argentine Primera statistics]}} at Fútbol XXI {{in lang|es}} 
* [https://ahalftimereport.com/2015/09/26/doctor-khumalo-the-story-of-a-bafana-legend/ Doctor Khumalo: The Story of a Bafana Legend]

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