Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso says he hopes South African football understands the work being done at the club after clinching another league title.
The Brazilians landed the title for the eight successive season on Wednesday evening following a 3-0 victory over Chippa United.
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It’s the first though under Cardoso who joined the club in December on the back of the dismissal of Manqoba Mngqithi and says it’s a ‘beautiful’ victory.
“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 TV.
“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.
Cardoso has now made it back-to-back seasons with league success after guiding Esperance to the Tunisian title last term.
“Well, it’s unbelievable obviously, being in two years – champion of Tunisia and to come here and be two times in the final of Champions League – let’s hope this season that we can make and pick the trophy," he added.
“It’s for me as a coach a wonderful, it’s unbelievable and I just want people to understand that comes from hard work, very, very hard work. It’s very exciting but very tough to be a coach of this level."
