Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso has made history after the Brazilians clinched the Betway Premiership title on Wednesday night.
The Brazilians bagged an eighth successive league title with a game to spare after defeating Chippa United 3-0 at Buffalo City Stadium.
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In doing so, Cardoso becomes the first Portuguese coach to win the Premiership title.
“It was challenging, but very beautiful. I said to them it will be very hard, but it will be very beautiful. We needed to believe in the work every day when you work with a group of players of these characters it’s not easy. Obviously, we knew that there was a new proposal, new ideas, changing a lot, but we believe a lot on ourselves,” Cardoso told SuperSport after the game.
“When you believe in ourselves, we made them also believe in them and it was important to conquer the hearts, minds because in football appears. I hope South Africa and football in general understand the work that’s being done in Mamelodi Sundowns because in these last weeks it seems everything happened but we were not there.
“But once I said that it would happen in a normal or not normal conditions – Sundowns would again be champions. That’s the believe we have and thank you very much for the players, structure the believe and let’s look forward because it’s what it is.
“We got to celebrate in style because we got records to be beaten and points to achieve, I think history has been written. Ambition is key and keep going and new match on Sunday to be played."
