Downs Midfielder Returns To Bolivia National Team

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Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Erwin Saavedra has returned to the Bolivian national team squad after a two year ‘hiatus’. Saavedra is currently on loan at Bolivar from Sundowns after he failed to cement a regular starting berth at the Chloorkop-based outfit under the watchful eye of Rulani Mokwena for the past two years. He joined Masandawana in 2022 from Brazilian club Goiás after much fanfare, but failed to live up to expectations, making just 10 appearances in the DStv Premiership and CAF Champions League altogether. ALSO READ: Hunt Shares Opinion On Rulani-Ramovic Drama Rulani Reserves Huge Praise For Riveiro Ahead Of

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Domingo Set For PSL Return After Raja Exit

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Former Bidvest Wits and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Haashim Domingo is set to return to the DStv Premiership and sign with Cape Town City. Domingo spent the past season in Morocco with Raja Club Athletic, but never quite settled in North Africa. He has since opted to part ways with the club after featuring in just 10 Botola Pro League games for Josef Zinnbauer’s team, last playing in April.  iDiski Times has been told that Domingo has now returned to Cape Town, and is set to sign for Eric Tinkler’s team for the 2024/25 campaign. It will be his first return

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Hunt Shares Opinion On Rulani-Ramovic Drama

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SuperSport United head coach Gavin Hunt feels the Premier Soccer League needs to intervene to solve the feud between Sead Ramovic and Rulani Mokwena. Tensions have been rising between the TS Galaxy and Mamelodi Sundowns coaches this season, with jabs starting in the media before Ramovic explosively claimed Mokwena threatened him during a heated phone call. There’s been a to and from battle between the two that escalated to boiling point when Mokwena accused Ramovic of intentionally going out to hurt Bongani Zungu or rather instructed his players to injure Zungu as payback for the leg break challenge on Bernard

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Overseas Interest Pouring In For Sekhukhune Talent

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Sekhukhune United have received enquiries from FCSB and FC Sheriff for the services of teenage defender Asekho Tiwani. Tiwani, 19, has long been touted for a breakthrough in the DStv Premiership and it finally arrived this campaign upon the arrival of Lehlohonolo Seema after previously training with the first team under Brandon Truter and Kaitano Tembo. iDiski Times has it on good authority that the two European clubs have reached out Babina Noko via Leonid Istrati, who facilitated Siyabonga Ngezana’s move to Europe, to enquire about his availability. Sekhukhune’s hierarchy are open to the sale, and will not stand in

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Middendorp Discusses His Future & Interest In Spurs Players

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Cape Town Spurs head coach Ernst Middendorp was coy about his future at the relegated club, though suggested that many of his players should have suitors out there for next season. Spurs beat Kaizer Chiefs 2-0 in their final game of the DStv Premiership season, but their fate had already been sealed weeks earlier. Whether Middendorp will stay with the club in the Motsepe Foundation Championship is yet to be confirmed, and the German said it will be discussed at a later point. But he did suggest that if he were at other clubs, he would snap up many of

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Rulani Reserves Huge Praise For Riveiro Ahead Of Nedbank Cup Final

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Shortly after guiding champions Mamelodi Sundowns to an unprecedented seventh consecutive DStv Premiership title, head coach Rulani Mokena took time to heap huge praise on Orlando Pirates counterpart Jose Riveiro. It was mixed feelings for Mokwena at the end of the final whistle in their 1-0 defeat to Cape Town City at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on the final day of the season even though a few good records tumbled under his mentorship at the Chloorkop-based outfit. Mokwena is the clear favourite to walk away with the DStv Premiership Coach of the Season award, where he has been nominated alongside Riveiro

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SA Coach Wins Back-To-Back Titles

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Morena Ramoreboli steered Jwaneng Galaxy to back-to-back Botswanan League titles, after securing the title on the final day of the season on Saturday. Galaxy beat Orapa United 1-0 in their final game to wrap up the title, finishing on 65 points, and ahead of the other challengers, Township Rollers and Gaborone United. With both Rollers and Gaborone winning their respective games, Galaxy needed the victory to pip them to the title. The South African COSAFA Cup-winning coach has also once again qualified his team to CAF Champions League. In the last campaign they reached the group stages, after they surprised

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Hunt Cagey On SuperSport Future With Contract Set To Expire

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SuperSport United head coach Gavin Hunt refused to be drawn into speculation surrounding his future at the club. Hunt’s contract is set to expire in July 2024 after finishing in third place and seventh place in the last two campaigns. He’s not hidden his displeasure of their transfer policy, selling some of their key talents to Mamelodi Sundowns in recent seasons and forced to dip into the DStv Diski Challenge squad for first-team reinforcements. ALSO READ: Hunt Makes SSU Transfer Admission Hunt Responds To Johannes-Pirates Rumours “Can I go to the office tomorrow or what?,” he said jokingly when asked

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Khanye Rips Into Chiefs After Worst PSL Finish 

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Former Kaizer Chiefs winger Junior Khanye says it is an embarrassment and a disaster that his former side finished the 2023/24 DStv Premiership season outside the top 8. Amakhosi lost 2-0 to already relegated Cape Town Spurs on the final day of the season in the mother city to finish in 10th position on the log with 36 points behind Golden Arrows and Polokwane City, who are just in their first season back in topflight. This finish is Chiefs’ worst in history, and their ninth season without a trophy. Khanye says the players and the technical team need to shoulder

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