Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso was extremely delighted as his side ended the Betway Premiership season with a 2-0 win over Magesi FC on Sunday evening.
A first half double from star player Lucas Ribeiro was enough to hand Masandawana a winning end to their domestic campaign.
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“The smiles and energy is obviously the sense of the job done obviously let’s say. At the same time, it’s an expression of the values we have in the locker room of the family that we build. Of the energy we have amongst us and make us to always be ambitious, ambitious, ambitious,” Cardoso told SuperSport TV.
“I told you that we needed to have a group of character today and that’s what the boys did. To play a beautiful game, make a result and enjoy a smile and that’s what they did.
“Maybe if they could’ve gone for more goals, but they enjoyed touching the ball that’s the nature of the club, this team, that’s the quality of these boys and also what I love so much.
“So, I’m a coach that’s very pleased to be a Mamelodi Sundowns coach and to represent all the Masandawana family and be the head of this group of men and they are really a great group of men. Otherwise, they would not be champions for so many years in a row,” continued the mentor.
Cardoso believes the country as a whole should be proud to have a team of Sundowns stature and showers the players with praise and added that they are ‘released’.
“I think that we also brought different things on this team, it has nothing to do with the better or worse it’s just what it is. But it’s a pleasure to see this team play at the moment.
“I feel the boys are released, they play without responsibility but having responsibility. They organise themselves meanwhile they play. So, there’s a lot of dynamics, I was looking in other aspects Magesi defending and it’s important to look at other aspects obviously when it’s taken to the limit,” Cardoso said.
“But we need to understand that our challengers are always ahead and we need to celebrate today and I told today was not supposed to be a party but a celebration. Celebration of love, football, culture we see in the stands from our fans. I think that South Africa should be very proud to have a team like Mamelodi Sundowns."
