How Pirates and Sundowns are made in the image of their coaches and environment
It's going to be an Orlando Pirates side fuelled by emotions that takes on a methodical Mamelodi Sundowns at Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday night.
In a way, both teams embody their coaches' ideals and have been shaped by the environment in which they were built. For Pirates, the heart is everything. It's the foundation they were built on. Its roots are that of a people's team. To play for the club when it was formed in 1937, you had to either be born in Orlando or be a son of parents who were born in the township in Soweto. That entrenched a strong sense of community and played a key role in its supporters being referred to as the spiritual owners of the club. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism.
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