Sekhukhune United captain Daniel Cardoso reckons that the club is long overdue a trophy and hopes the 2026/27 season is the campaign they get to settle that debt.
The Limpopo-based outfit is yet to lift a trophy in topflight since their promotion from the Motsepe Foundation Championship five seasons ago. They have managed to finish inside the top five in four of those terms and the closest they came to lifting a Cup was in the final of the Nedbank Cup in 2023 where they lost to Orlando Pirates.
Babina Noko opened the current season with a narrow 1-0 win over Durban City in Seshego this past weekend, a venue where they also lifted the pre-season Mafori Cup a week earlier.
Cardoso spoke to iDiski Times journalist Lethabo Kganyago in edition 267 of the newspaper where he mentioned that even though at the time of publishing the team hadn’t sat down to discuss targets, the MTN8 is a first realistic Cup to aim for.
“I think we do owe the club a trophy,” Cardoso told iDiski Times.
“I think this season we do have to win a trophy; there’s no negotiations about that. We haven’t sat down as a team as yet to discuss what our goals are for the season, where we want to finish the season, what trophies we want this season.
“So, I think that’s very important as a team that we need to get to the drawing board and start doing that. But yeah, I think you know MTN8 is one of the easiest trophies to win. There are only four games, and you are in the final.
“So, I’m hoping that winning the Mafori Cup, even though it’s not an official trophy and all of that, maybe it will give the boys a bit of a taste of what winning trophies is and just getting that winning feeling and getting used to the winning feeling.”
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