BREAKING: Mamelodi Sundowns sign Argentine defender!

Mamelodi Sundowns are welcoming Argentine centre-back Lucas Suárez on a one-year loan with an option to buy.

The 29-year-old has experience on the international stage, featuring for Argentina’s U20 team a decade ago, and has since played for Estudiantes RC, Arsenal Sarandí and Talleres.

Sundowns new coach

Miguel Cardoso has remained unbeaten since taking the reins from Manqoba Mngqithi, a firing that shocked the PSL.

Shortly after his anointment, the Portuguese native was quick to work, saying, “we have to study the team and the players and it’s obvious that the players we have are technically well developed,

“They suit the game of a coach that wants to impose himself on the game. Because that’s the base – to have quality players. I struggled to impose myself where the quality could not sustain what I wanted to put in,” the PSL coach added.

“I want a team that can control the games. Controlling the games means the team must be solid in the four moments of the game. Must understand very well what to do with the ball, obviously, but as I have in mind, you have to have the ball to move, not the ball but the opponent in order to find the right spaces to attack those spaces.

“When teams play against Sundowns, we really need to understand this question of the spaces. Where are the spaces? How we can create, how we should utilize and use the spaces that are in the game. So, having control of the game also has to do with being aggressive in the moment you lose the ball because as much as you control the game, there is a moment where you are going to lose the ball and you need to be strong in that moment. I think it’s a huge solidarity aming the players, I prefer the players to tun for three or four seconds and make an effort to recover the ball immediately, rather than coming down, reorganize and defend to win the ball and then having to go forward again.”

Is Cardoso the right man for the job?

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