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Orlando Pirates plot Champions League strategy

Bucs plot Champions League strategy

Posted: 2011-10-25 08:36

Orlando Pirates coach Julio Leal has been silently following the last stages of this year's edition of the African Champions League as he plots his strategy ahead of the 2012 edition.

Pirates are hoping to put an end to the domination of North African clubs, which resumed in earnest after Tunisian outfit Esperance and Wydad Casablanca of Morrocco reached the 2011 Final, which will be played next month.

Bucs spokesperson Mickey Modisane – who says everyone at the club is excited about the prospects of competing against the best sides in Africa – says Leal and his technical department will start finalising their plans after the Champions League draw.

"We have been following this year's Champions League so that we get an idea of what kind of opposition we will be up against next year.

"But the plans of the coach will only become more concrete after the draw, as he will know the teams we will be playing with," Modisane says.

Pirates skipper Lucky Lekgwathi says the club's achievement in 1995 – when it won the continental competition – continues to put the weight of expectation on today's current crop of players.

"In South African football, you cannot talk about Champions League football without talking about the Bucs team of 1995," says Lekgwathi.

"It is every Orlando Pirates player's dream to win the Champpions League and this is why we are determined to go all the way this time," adds the experienced Bucs captain.

Bucs fans: Do you think your team has what it takes for African glory? Have your say HERE.

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Sbuda duuu : 2011-10-25 09:04

Ilk 2welcam tebogo ko botswana in de houze ma broda we de ghost we lv u man n welcam

robby : 2011-10-25 09:06

go n make da nation proud.my blood is yellow

Undisputed Double-Trebble Champ Mopheme: 2011-10-25 09:15

Yeah.! Pirates will do it. If they can't no-one will..!!

RaphaeloRalph: 2011-10-25 09:17

We cannot think the Obvious things,
We know that Pirates has what it takes to win the Champions league AGAIN.
The question is will our greedy North & Western African brothers be fair?
Or they will spring the officiating tactic they have always employed against us?

ngeza : 2011-10-25 09:18

This has to be our trophy by hook or crook! We won it in 95 and we hosted the CAN the following year! We will win it in 2012 and host CAN in 2013! Nw more reason to ganner support for the nation as by virtue of fate we might find ourselves being winners in 2013 as a nation!Bucs by choice

Scirocco 'R': 2011-10-25 09:24

Its another star 4 bucs, nje !!!

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Fela: 2011-10-25 09:37

The only team in SA to win the champions league will do it again for SA and Bafana's performance will improve accordingly.

Plan coach so that when the CL starts we will be ready for both the PSL and the CL. Our enemies will eat humble pie as usuall as we lift the trophy for the second time.

Motlokoa  : 2011-10-25 09:39

Eish thts why i love my bhakaniya so much,

While we planing for the Champion's League Chubaba fc or shud i say the newly named 4 Captains fc players are on hunger strike,ba kgathetse ke ho ja masonja every day.

Tsipaaa tse ntsho Tsipaaa,,,,,,

sean: 2011-10-25 09:40

Ja I hope our technical team is "adequate" so that they can know all CAF rules. We all know what happened to Bafunny Bafunny and their "inadequate" technical team. We should go talk to Downs about Eduardo, just so we have another centre back

Nipsy: 2011-10-25 09:41

It will be a disgrace to Africans for a team playing 4-6-0 to win this cheap trophy, Botswana should do something about this. Nespray will resign from collecting rubish bins and be based permanently at the tarven. Khosi until CAF pays atleast 30-100M for Champs league.

♫►Kheuzen: 2011-10-25 09:44

what a question, yeah we have what it takes. With Jali and that Niger boy in our club-they are physically strong. BM17 in the 18 area, while Mr Stopnon-sense Sangweni or even Mahumutsa will do the stopping job. Sox the Gautrain will keep them running!!!!
Am so loving my team another ◄**►

Mathe a Tau: 2011-10-25 09:49

go for it coach, are 100 % behind u

Sweyts: 2011-10-25 09:53

Sho maBhakaniya, you've got all our support on this one, nomakanjani.

My beloved Downs is the last Mzansi team to reach the champs league finals in the 20th century, phela when pirates last won it, I.F.P was still the opposition with majority Bucs fans wearing red headbands and carriyng knobkirries e-stadium, it's now over a decade ago and the star has faded.
mh.

Phezkwabo maBhakaniya! Awee!

mno: 2011-10-25 09:55

Way to go coach. Yes kickoff, the bucaneers have everything they need, watch them win all domestic trophies including the league enroute grabbing the 2nd star from those north africans

LordJerry : 2011-10-25 10:00

@James you said it all 'If Pirates cant win it then no 1 will' we have by far the best defence in south africa. As our goals conceded in the psl is 6 no team has conceded less.

Our striking force will click anytime now. In the League Pirates only conceded 1 goal in open play the shabba goal of which Jali was fouled. So its a know fact that no team can break our defence in open play.

Pirates is the only team in South Africa ranked inside the top 30 so the draw will suit us as per CAF rules. With 1 cup in the bag us Pirates fans still want more unlike our neighbours the so called cup specialists. Pirates is multiple cups specialists. @Phenya-Football 101 was mastered at the University of Orlando.

The Ghost: 2011-10-25 10:02

WE WILL WIN IN ALL ... ANOTHER STAR COMETH ... UP THE BUCS!!!

Recession06: 2011-10-25 10:14

All I can say is good luck to the Ghost.

mash-do : 2011-10-25 10:38

@godfreak
.......are u gonna boast about your defensive record?...are u not the one who were calling for lilian's head last week after u accused him of favouritism and playing defensive football?... So u are proud of having only managed to score 6 goals in 8 games?.........wooooooooooow!....this lilan thing is going to drop more points and he will be chopped!

vuks : 2011-10-25 11:24

with Rick Flair as our coach,I don't see us progressing to the next stage as we fail to win at home,how are we going to win in Gabon,Cairo,Tunisia and other countries while we fail to win here(Maritzburg,Fnb,Free state,Orlando) Bucs 4 life.

Tolly.ba.Thathe: 2011-10-25 12:20

We'll show them how to do it.

Pheya : 2011-10-25 12:26

@vuks is better if u stop being bucs fan cause at bucs we dnt say bucs for life but once and always!if u dnt have faith in ur team is like u dnt have faith in ur gf or wife.Be a suppoter nt a dissapointer,ORLANDO PIRATES IS GONA DO BETTER IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!

Tiago Valoi: 2011-10-25 12:40

If we want to win the trophy of Africa, we need to greatly improve our attack position. We need very advanced players, more ambitious, more consistent, more determined, but above all on practical completion. Maybe we have to hire one or two players who can make a good company to Mc Carty. We can not content ourselves with the advanced level we have. In recent games they have been shown to be weak, we must recognize. Incidentally, this was always the great challenge of Orlando Pirates: lack os strikes.

mr cool : 2011-10-25 13:52

Orlando Pirates plot strategy for the champions league and the zebras plot strategy to defend next year's macufe cup.
once and always the zebras put a star on their jersey

gogowami: 2011-10-25 16:52

@vuks in futbol u win some u loose some the only thing dat we need from u is ur suport not ur negative ****ysis. plz Bhakajuju.

Mapezawalebhaka: 2011-10-27 12:20

I Mapezawalebhaka believes that my beloved team will conquer Africa again and win ourselve a second gold star over our emblem.

Donald Duck: 2011-11-17 10:57

On this one I am behind de rats all de way. We need 2put our football in a high standard in Africa. We have a top 10 league in de planet, the richest in Africa, surely we must start dominating the CAF competitions as well. Go rats, get dat second star!!!

Khosi 4 Life!!!!!