MTN8 and Nedbank Cup champions Orlando Pirates want to win something else next season. Deon Hotto has revealed the ambitions.
Speaking to the media after a solid pre-season camp in Spain, the 33-year-old full-back from Nambian revealed that Orlando Pirates are motivated to win the Betway Premiership and the CAF Champions League.
“To be honest, for us, it’s not a big problem to defend the MTN8 and the Nedbank Cup, for us the major ones are the league and the Champions League, that’s it… the other two we don’t have a big problem with the other two,” Hotto said as quoted by“The talk for us has been about the league and Champions League, so that’s what we want to go for because we know how to win those other domestic cups.
“Yeah most definitely it’s a project also for the coach, he’s now in his third season, trying to get the traditions of the team, formations also – you can see how he’s feeling comfortable, more at home also,” he explained. “He knows what to do in this upcoming season and we as players are there to back him and the technical staff, the staff members, there are supporting him and us also. There’s pressure everywhere, it doesn’t matter where you are, or where you play.
“And it’s not to say we want to win the league for the coach, we want to win it for ourselves and the supporters, the Chairman also. Pressure is always going to be there and the pressure we take within this coming season is the pressure of trying to be from the first to the last game, and be on top of the table, it’s the pressure from ourselves, not supporters or the Chairman, but as players, we want to be on top from the first to last game,” the Orlando Pirates star concluded.
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