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Cardoso hails ‘wonderful’ Sundowns signing
Aug 15, 2026 – 06:54 pm
By Kickoff writer
Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso had some special praise for one of his new signings after the 1-1 draw against Kaizer Chiefs.
After a delayed start to the season, the African champions were thrown a baptism of fire three matches in having seen off TS Galaxy in midweek in their opener and looked to build on that result.
It didn’t turn out that way though as Masandawana needed to come from behind through Mailula and claimed a point.
Mailula, who in their MTN8 quarter-final clash against Polokwane City a week ago came off the bench to score the winner in extra-time, rose to the fore again and he is a happy guy who is a matured player that loves the club.
“it’s a wonderful boy first of all that loves the club, group, ambience. He is a happy guy; you give him five minutes he goes happy that usually brings good things back.
“I’m so happy because of that he is a mature player also. He feels the moments in regarding the goal, today was beautiful. I’m happy for him.”
Cardoso also spoke about the wonderful football on display at the FNB Stadium.
“First of all, it’s important to say it was a very beautiful football match, sometimes we complain, today we should say bravo. Beautiful football game, played with fair play a tough match but fair play from both sides,” Cardoso told SuperSport TV post-match.
“A lot of commitment, obviously a lot of energy, I think we deserved a little bit more, we had control of the match in the first half, I think we totally managed the match. We suffered a goal from a mistake; we had to run again try to go for a draw and we finished the game in the top trying to score the second goal.
“I reinforce – bravo on the football we saw today. Bravo from my players, a lot of capacity, a lot of quality football we saw today. Important to understand that this team is a team that’s being rebuild.
“We lost Keanu, Tebza now, we lost Jayden, Arthur and Nuno Santos and the team is sustaining, I’m obviously happy by what I saw and it’s important when someone falls the other one should rise so bravo good, beautiful football afternoon,” he added.