Mamelodi Sundowns and Manqoba Mngqithi have parted, the club announced in a press conference held at the club on Tuesday. The club also unveiled Miguel De Azevedo Cardoso as the new Head Coach of the club.
The new coach brings his own technical team, Fabio Fernandes, Pedro Azevedo and João Araújo, and will start with his duties with immediate effect. Coaches Steve Komphela and Kennedy Mweene, remain with the team and will join coach Cardoso.
In a statement released by the club on Tuesday, the introduction of the new Coaching Technical Team was necessitated by the recent unsatisfactory results despite the commitment of the Sundowns Board to give Manqoba Mngqithi and his Technical Team an opportunity to lead the Club going into the future.
Cardoso was the Head Coach of Espérance Sportive de Tunis and reached the finals of the 2023/24 CAF Champions League.
He has coached in Portugal, Spain, France, Greece, and Ukraine at some of the biggest Clubs such as Porto, Braga, Deportivo La Coruna, Celta Vigo, AEK Athens, Nantes and Shaktar Donetsk.
“Mamelodi Sundowns is thankful to Manqoba Mngqithi and Wendell Robinson for their loyal services to the club over the years and wishes them everything of the best in their new endeavours. Manqoba Mngqithi and Wendell Robinson will forever remain part of the Mamelodi Sundowns Family. Mamelodi Sundowns is also thankful to Romain Folz who recently joined the club,” said the club in the statement.