How Miguel Cardoso silenced Mamelodi Sundowns critics amid mixed results

Speculation over Cardoso’s future intensified in December, with a section of supporters calling for his dismissal amid inconsistent results. 

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"That kind of people don't really make my life [harder], I live from the energy of the ones that are important, and its curious that you say, 'We didn't know if you would stay,' but we all knew that I would stay," said Cardoso.

"Me, my assistants, my club, my management, my players – we all knew that I would stay. The ones that wanted me out are probably not the ones who have power and capacity to decide.

"But, look, I don't look at this moment as an individual achievement, I look at it as a club achievement, players' achievement – this is their job, their work, their high level of commitment, not mine.

"I just try to facilitate and not complicate anything, and that's it. I live in peace, I live in a big peace. I'm already 54 [years old], I have to enjoy life. 

"One day, life will finish for everybody. I don't depend on my day to day work, I depend on what I did many years ago, so my life is very stable and I need to enjoy life, and that brings me the peace of existing as a human being that makes me just focus on the work.

"One day this journey will finish, for sure. Let's hope it's very far away from today, but until that day I will enjoy everyday because I live in a beautiful country with beautiful people.

"I love to live here, I really do. My family loves it here, I think people around me like us a lot and we try to create the right energy because that flow is also important to succeed."

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