Teko Modise believes that his former club Mamelodi Sundowns have the potential to go all the way and reach the finals of the CAF Champions League this season.
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Teko Modise believes that his former club, Mamelodi Sundowns, have the potential to go all the way and reach the CAF Champions League final this season.
The Tshwane giants have won Africa’s premier club competition only once, in 2016, under then-coach Pitso Mosimane, when they defeated Egyptian giants Zamalek in the finals. However, since that triumph, they have struggled to replicate their success on the contient.
For the past two seasons, they have been knocked out in the semi-final stages of the competition and are desperate to climb to the top of African football once more this season.
Modise, who was part of Mosimane’s team that won the Champions League in 2016, believes the current crop of players have the potential to go all the way.
“If we can have 10 players go to AFCON finals [with Bafana Bafana] and became third on the continent, we have to go all the way to the final of the Champions League, to be honest. I’m not putting pressure; it’s a fact,” Modise said as per FarPost.
The former South African international believes that the current generation of players at the club possesses more quality.
“I think we have a group of players that still needs to earn those rights to go to the final. I believe they do have better quality than we had [Modise’s generation at Sundowns].Even the challenges are better than we had, we were learning like travelling-wise. Like one time in Ethiopia [airport], we spent eight hours, but now they know the easy routes to get there early.” Modise said.
Sundowns coach Manqoba Mngqithi earlier in year also backed his side to win title for the second time this year.
"We have a responsibility to say can we win the Champions League? because for me that is something that we have been lacking and it is something that honestly speaking I think we will win,"
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