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Orlando Pirates defender Thapelo Xoki has backed Monnapule Saleng to be named Premier Soccer League Footballer of the Season. Saleng is the club’s leading scorer with nine goals in 16 DStv Premiership matches, with the latest coming against Richards Bay at King Zwelithini Stadium last weekend. The former Swallows winger has...

All Stars FC head coach Sinethemba Badela admits he's love to retain Thabiso Sesane but the ball is in the court of Orlando Pirates. Sesane made his debut for Pirates as a teenager during the Milutin Sredojević, Rulani Mokwena era but found it hard to establish himself into the first eleven. The...

Orlando Pirates midfielder Fortune Makaringe doesn’t think his performance has declined since he joined the Soweto giants. When Makaringe moved Pirates from Maritzburg United at the beginning of 2019/20 season, he was a hit along with Siphesihle Ndlovu and Lebohang Maboe. The trio led Maritzburg to the Nedbank Cup final, the...

Orlando Pirates coach Jose Riveiro says it means a lot to him that the club will keep the MTN8 trophy forever. Riveiro added that he knows that he will form part of the club’s history forever when it comes to the Wafa Wafa Cup, but credited winning it to the...

Orlando Pirates coach Jose Riveiro says he was not proving a point to anyone who compared him to a "plumber" at first, with the term described to foreign coaches who come to South Africa without success. The Spanish coach, who was appointed on a three-year deal during the off season,...

AmaZulu coach Romain Folz says it would be suicidal to focus on Ndabayithethwa Ndlondlo when they face Orlando Pirates in the MTN8 final at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday. Ndlondlo, who likes to dictate terms just near his partner Miguel Timm, previously worked with Folz when the French-born coach...

Orlando Pirates defender Bandile Shandu says he’s behind Thabiso Monyane at the right-back position because he picked up a knock at the beginning of the season. As Shandu was nursing a knock, Monyane has wrestled the right-back spot, showing energy to bomb up and down in the right flank. As he...

Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Richard Ofori has reacted to Mamelodi Sundowns not having a shot on target when these two sides met in the first leg of the MTN8 semi final. However, as much as that was the case, Ofori says “it didn’t mean anything because we didn’t win the game”,...

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has explained why he has called up Orlando Pirates winger Thembinkosi Lorch for a first time since taking charge of the national team.       googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1652905917438-0'); });   After two Man of the Match performances against RS Berkane and Maritzburg United, Broos included ‘Nyoso’...

Orlando Pirates have announced a new partnership with OPPO South Africa, who also work with the likes of FC Barcelona and AC Milan and become the club’s new official mobile partner. The Buccaneers enter a long list of top international sporting brands to partner with OPPO, who also has established...