Miguel Cardoso on Mamelodi Sundowns players called up to Bafana Bafana: I am happy that the players can see that hard work pays as they are now called

Miguel Cardoso is pleased with the number of Mamelodi Sundowns players called to the Bafana Bafana provisional squad.

Thapelo Morena, Themba Zwane, Teboho Mokoena, Aubrey Modiba, Ronwen Williams, Khulumani Ndamane, Jayden Adams and Iqraam Rayners are all part of the provisional squad named this week.

Bafana faces Panama late this month in a friendly international as part of their World Cup preparations.

“Yeah obviously Rayners’ form makes me happy but at the same time it makes me worried because we have a player like Peter Shalulile, who in the past was so important and now not in the group, then we had Lebo Mothiba who did well when he entered and helped,” Cardoso told SABC Sport journalist Velile Mnyandu after the 2-0 win over ORBIT College on Tuesday evening in Rustenburg.

“It’s this team of Sundowns that has quality and in some positions we have many players and when they perform, they appear, but live different moments throughout a season, I’m happy to see he’s doing well, happy to see him back in the national team, hope he’s in the final squad.

“Also happy to see Thapelo Morena back, happy to see Maseko doing well in Cyprus and he’s also on the list – Jayden also back on the list – so happy to see that the boys understand, if they want to fight for big achievements, they have to perform and produce results, otherwise there’s no space in the national team, let’s see what happens in the next months.”