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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso says he felt no pressure to start star midfielder Themba “Mshishi” Zwane, despite the outcry following their loss to Pyramids FC in the CAF Champions League final in May. Sundowns’ ardent supporters have been complaining that the veteran midfielder wasn’t given enough playing time during the two-leg finals, and they continue to blame Zwane’s absence for the team’s inability to win a second African star.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
The victorious cricket Proteas arrived to one of the most rapturous and fitting welcome at the OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday morning. When captain Temba Bavuma emerged from the arrivals section, with the World Test Championship trophy in his hands, it drove the crowd in wild celebration. Fans, draped in SA and sports memorabilia, started arriving at the airport early in the morning. The airport was wrapped in a blanket and a sea of South African flags and colours.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
It was like chalk and cheese when two Bafana Bafana squads played simultaneously in the past week. To read this story in full, buy a copy of today’s Sunday World or subscribe to the paper’s e-edition by clicking on the link below. https://www.magzter.com/ZA/Fundudzi-Media/Sunday-World/NewspaperVisit the SW YouTube Channel for our video content.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
It was like chalk and cheese when two Bafana Bafana squads played simultaneously in the past week. While we applaud the whole exercise as one of the most brilliant ideas to come from Safa, there are still some question marks. The makoya Bafana squad, coached by the crafty Hugo Broos played in two friendly international matches against Tanzania and Mozambique in the Fifa calendar week. The other makeshift Bafana team was put together to participate in the Cosafa Cup.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
The long-awaited Fifa Club World Cup finally got underway in the wee hours of today, and Mamelodi Sundowns’ midfield workhorse Teboho Mokoena is beaming with excitement ahead of their opening Group F match against Ulsan of South Korea on Wednesday. To read this story in full, buy a copy of today’s Sunday World or subscribe to the paper’s e-edition by clicking on the link below. https://www.magzter.com/ZA/Fundudzi-Media/Sunday-World/NewspaperVisit the SW YouTube Channel for our video content.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
First division side Orbit College held PSL campaigners Cape Town City to a goalless draw in a relegation/promotion play-offs match played in the Mother City on Saturday afternoon. City are hoping to use the play-offs to retain their status in the Betway Premiership. They were joined in the play-offs by Motsepe Foundation Championship outfits Orbit and Casric Stars.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
Disgruntled members of the South African Football Association (SAFA) NEC members have invited all football stakeholders for a national gathering and dialogue on June 16 to discuss the current discourse in SA football and to arrest the anomaly permanently. The organisers of the National Dialogue 4 Change 2 Rescue SAFA will host a virtual Indaba for the stakeholders to “SAVE OUR SAFA”. Rebellious NEC membersThe organisers and speakers are the rebellious NEC members Gladwyn White and Monde Montshiwa.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
After protests and protracted legal cases in the boardrooms, the PSL’s Promotion/Relegation Play-Offs will finally get under way this afternoon (Wednesday) when first division outfits Orbit College and Casric Stars cross swords at the Olympia Park in Rustenburg. Orbit and Casric finished second and third respectively in the Motsepe Foundation Championship (MFC), the second tier of SA football, and they are joined in the play-offs by Cape Town City who finished 15th in the PSL.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
Even though the SA Under-17 and Under-20 will be playing in the youth FIFA World Cup tournaments later this year, the search for the next generation of players has started in earnest. Coached by Vela Khumalo, Amajimbos, the SA Under-17s, have qualified for the FIFA World Cup which be held in Qatar in November. They achieved this after they finished second in their group at the Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations in April.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Kgomotso Mokoena
Mamelodi Sundowns’ failure to capture their second CAF Champions League star has really left supporters confused, dazed and very angry. Surely, playing against newbies, Pyramids FC, was the biggest opportunity for the Brazilians to romp home with the face-lifted trophy and show the African continent that they want to elbow the great Al Ahly from the mountain top. Pyramids may be on the rise, but they are not Al Ahly; they are not even Zamalek or Esperance.
