10/09/2026
🇿🇦🇺🇸 OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT | A NEW CHAPTER, A BIGGER VISION ⚽🔥
Today, we are proud and excited to announce a major new chapter in our football journey.
Diplomats Football has officially partnered and merged with KOSA — Kick Off Soccer Academy, based in the United States of America 🇺🇸.
From this new chapter forward, our football operations will trade and operate under the name KOSA — Kick Off Soccer Academy.
This is more than just a change of name.
This is a bridge between South Africa 🇿🇦 and the United States 🇺🇸.
For years, Diplomats Football has believed in the potential of young South African footballers. We have worked, sacrificed, struggled and continued pushing forward because we believe that talent should never be limited by where a player comes from.
Now, through our partnership with Kick Off Soccer Academy (KOSA) in the USA, we are creating a bigger platform for our players — a platform that can connect South African talent with international opportunities and international exposure. 🌍⚽
Our vision is to:
🔴 Develop talented young footballers
🔴 Give players greater local and international exposure
🔴 Build strong South Africa–international football connections
🔴 Create opportunities for players to be seen beyond South Africa
🔴 Prepare players for higher levels of the game
🔴 Open doors to international football opportunities
🔴 Build a pathway where dreams can become reality
To every player who has worn the Diplomats Football badge, every parent who trusted us, every coach who sacrificed, and every supporter who stood with us through difficult times — this is a new chapter. We have faced challenges.
We have had moments when things were not easy. But we never stopped believing.
And today, we are turning the page.
🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA
🤝 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
⚽ KICK OFF SOCCER ACADEMY (KOSA)
🌍 ONE VISION — DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FOOTBALLERS.
And importantly, while our football operations will now trade as KOSA — Kick
