Growing calls for Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso to vacate his position have fallen on deaf ears as the Portuguese mentor has made it clear that he’s going nowhere.
Cardoso made this known after the Brazilians trounced Orbit College 2-0 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Monday evening that his departure from the Betway Premiership champions is just wishful thinking from some of the team’s followers.
“People are discussing or thinking about the things that they would like to probably happen. Sundowns is a club that is ruled from the inside to the outside, not from the outside into the inside,” Cardoso said.
“There is a strong leadership inside the club, a strong sports director, a very strong coach and very strong locker room. It is not from the outside where people will hurt us, the doors of Chloorkop are so strong that those kind of things don’t enter.”
The 53-year-old Portuguese, who joined the Tshwane giants from Tunisian side Esperance in 2024, added: “We are united and we know what to do. We are working hard to please our fans as much it is possible. We need out fans not to be poisoned by the outside. Regarding my future, don’t worry about my future because my future doesn’t only depend on football, just my professional life depends on football. It is completely different. My future depends on many many other things, depends much more on music than on football, depends much more on the cycling than on football.”
