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“It was challenging, but very beautiful” – Cardoso

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epa12054746 Mamelodi Sundowns' head coach Miguel Cardoso looks on ahead of the CAF Champions League semi final second leg soccer match between Al Ahly FC and Mamelodi Sundowns FC, in Cairo, Egypt, 25 April 2025. EPA/MOHAMED HOSSAM

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso has opened up about making history and clinching the Betway Premiership title with a game to spare.

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The Brazilians secured their eighth successive league title after they comfortably defeated Chippa United 3-0 on Wednesday evening.

Iqraam Rayners opened the scoring in the 11th minute before Arthur Sales netted two goals in the second half to secure the victory at the Buffalo City Stadium.

The 52-year-old coach has now become the first Portuguese coach to win the Betway 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.”