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PUMA announced today it has entered into a long term endorsement agreement effective immediately. Steven will wear the new and revolutionary PUMA v1.11 football boot, the lightest football boot PUMA has ever developed, through the next FIFA World Cup and African Cup of Nations tournaments in 2012, 2013 and 2015. The big question this week [...]

Nice press release pictures through today detailing the new Mamelodi Sundowns kit. We hope to feature more new kits in the coming weeks. What do you think of this new kit?

Platinum Stars has been made aware of an individual or individuals operating in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape regions who are claiming to be representatives of the club and are supposedly scouting for young players.

Platinum Stars Football Club are delighted to announce the return of Owen da Gama to take up the vacant head coach role for the upcoming 2010/11 Premier Soccer League (PSL) season. Da Gama has left his post as head coach of PSL side Bloemfontein Celtic and returns to Dinaledi on a two year contract, beginning [...]

Platinum Stars would like to dismiss out of hand media reports that coach Steve Komphela is about to be relieved of his duties at the club. The management of Platinum Stars is fully behind the coach and his technical team and not once has the issue of Komphela’s discontinued employment been raised within the club. [...]

The former Bafana Bafana midfielder, who has 20 international caps to his name, put pen-to-paper on the new deal on Tuesday. He will be available for selection for coach Steve Komphela at the 2009 Telkom Charity Cup to be played at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace on Saturday, where Stars will meet Mamelodi Sundowns in [...]

There is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to get good returns by investing in talented soccer players in South Africa, the rest of Africa, and globally, without being either an agent or a soccer player. There are no precedents of this type of investment in South Africa but there definitely are in South America. Carlos Tevez [...]

Platinum Stars have announced the appointment of David Vilakazi as assistant coach to fellow Steve Komphela for the 2009/10 season with immediate effect. Vilakazi, who was head coach of First Division Coastal Stream side Carara Kicks last season, as the Welkom side came within a whisker of promotion to the Absa Premiership, joins Stars on [...]

Pitso Mosimane is the one of the few young local coaches who has joined the elite group of successful coaches in South Africa. The other one that comes to mind is Gavin Hunt of Supersport United. Like the rest of Africa, we seem to have a propensity to import coaches from overseas, with a few [...]

Patrice Motsepe publicly declared, a couple of years ago, that Sundowns would play their part for the country by providing Bafana Bafana with outstanding players for the World Cup. However, what has happened is actually the exact opposite because they have become the place where footballers’ careers die. The club’s policy of willy-nilly buying any [...]

I predicted that Mamelodi Sundowns would make a spectacular move in the close season and it seems they have done just that with the signing of Hristo Stoichkov as Head Coach on a two year contract. He will take over from Ted Dumitru who had taken charge of the club on a caretaker basis. This [...]