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/ 28 September 2008
Newly promoted Absa Premiership outfit Bay United notched a famous victory when they defeated Orlando Pirates 2-0 in a pulsating clash on Sunday.
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/ 24 September 2008
Orlando Pirates are desperate for their first league win of the season and face a test of character when they meet Bay United on Sunday.
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/ 13 September 2008
The weather turned cold at Coca-Cola Park on Friday night but Pirates and Wits kept the fans warm with in a pulsating derby that ended 0-0.
Golden Arrows captain Kagisho Dikgacoi had mixed fortunes when he led his side to a deserved 1-0 win over Orlando Pirates.
The gloves come off this weekend when the top eight Premier Soccer League clubs get down to the business of opening the new season.
New Orlando Pirates coach Rudi Krol hit the jackpot by winning the Telkom Charity Cup against arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday night.
Orlando Pirates squandered a 2-0 lead on Saturday in the Telkom Charity Cup but still triumphed to advance to the final.
Kaizer Chiefs took apart their arch-rivals Orlando Pirates 2-0 in the third match in the Vodacom Challenge series on Thursday night.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is full of praise for Orlando Pirates after his Red Devils managed a 1-0 win over a second-string Bucs.
Orlando Pirates aim to go one better than arch rivals Kaizer Chiefs when they play host to Manchester United in the second Vodacom Challenge clash.
Just two months after becoming European champions, Manchester United arrive in SA on Friday for their pre-season tour resembling a club in crisis.
Orlando Pirates’ new coach Rudi Krol could not have asked for a tougher baptism of fire than the first two matches in the Vodacom Challenge next week.
Regardless of how they fare in this weekend’s final matches of the football season, SuperSport United and Ajax Cape Town have a lot to be proud of. Both have had a season made in heaven. Considering that both lost influential coaches — SuperSport’s Pitso Mosimane joined the national team brains trust and Ajax’s Muhsin Ertugral went to Kaizer Chiefs — they were expected to struggle.
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/ 12 September 2007
South Africa held Uruguay 0-0 on Wednesday in an international friendly to regain some pride after a weekend mauling by Zambia. But the 2010 soccer World Cup hosts needed help from Zimbabwe referee Tendai Bwanya to contain the visitors, who finished fourth at the Copa America in Venezuela two months ago.
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/ 5 September 2007
For his first real taste of paid football, Gift Leremi, who was killed in a car accident on September 3, came on as a late substitute in a charity match against Kaizer Chiefs. Orlando Pirates, who had in the off-season promoted him to their first team, were trailing by a goal.
With a script as strange and uncanny as that penned by a fiction writer, Orlando Pirates secured a frenzied 2-1 extra-time victory over SuperSport United in the SAA Supa8 semifinal at Durban’s King’s Park Stadium on Thursday night, with much-maligned coach Bibey Mutombo emerging the unlikely hero.