Mamelodi Sundowns chairman Tlhopie Motsepe is not reading too much into the clubs poor performance in pre-season matches so far.
The Brazilians have recorded back-to-back defeats in Austria against German lower division side SV Sandhausen and Ukrainian giants Dynamo Kyiv. The DStv Premiership champions will play English Championship side Cardiff City next Tuesday before wrapping up the tour with a double header against Al Arabi SC and Neymars Al Hilal three days later.
Theres a boxing quote by Muhammad Ali that says train hard so that you can fight easy and if you look at the quality of opposition were facing this pre-season, they are respectively very strong and challenging football clubs, Motsepe reasoned.
So the results that were seeing are setting us up for the calibre that we might find ourselves playing against at the Club World Cup. Thats what were doing, were stretching ourselves now so that when the season commences, then were ready.
Motsepe appealed to Masandawana faithful to get behind the team in the new season as they aim to break more records in the PSL. It remains unclear if Sundowns will appoint a new coach after the departure of Rulani Mokwena. Manqoba Mngqithi and Steve Komphela are currently in charge of the star-studded side.
