The 30-year-old Belgian born Bosnian attacker has played for a number of clubs across Bosnia, Croatia, Romania and Uzbekistan throughout his career.

A move to South Africa was never on the cards, but Zajmovic made the move to Galaxy as a result of his links with current head coach Adnan Beganovic and former assistant Mustafa Kodro when former boss Sead Ramovic was still in charge.

He has massively impressed during his time with the Rockets, scoring 11 goals in 23 games across all competitions, alongside three assists.

In an interview with iDiski Times, the in-form attacker said: "To be honest, I didn't know Sead, and he also didn't know me. But the two assistants, Mustafa and Adnan.

"Adnan Beganovic is now the head coach and then there was Mustafa Kodro, he was my assistant coach at Velez Mostar, I played there for a season and a half. Adnan, was the assistant coach way back at Travnik, I was like 18 years old.

"Beganovic, we didn't see each other for 10 or 11 years without contact, but he still knew me from back then and he said good things about me.

"Mustafa too, he said amazing things to Sead who was impressed and then he showed my videos to Mr Tim Sukazi. So, he's the Chairman who decides, he took the final decision, that's how it went."

Zajmovic continued: "To be totally honest. It was maybe 11 or 12 at night when they called me, you know, and I spoke with them for 20 minutes, half an hour.

“I know a lot about South Africa, about Nelson Mandela, I’ve read a lot of things, you know. But I went to hallway for the call and then came back inside.

“I said to my wife and to my mom, she was also there. I told them they were calling me to play South Africa. They were just laughing, you know like haha, like I wasn’t being serious.

“Then I was the one, I took initiative, and I was explaining them like, South Africa is not what you guys think it is.

“And then I showed some videos, I knew Galaxy were based in Johannesburg, but I showed them videos of Cape Town, the stadiums, that was my tactic. It didn’t work immediately; it was two or three days before they came around."

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