Orlando Pirates kept alive hopes of playing in Africa next season with a courageous 2-0 victory over Mamelodi Sundowns Saturday in a South African FA Cup quarter-final.
Reduced to 10 men when Ghanaian Edwin Gyimah was sent off after a second caution, the Buccaneers won through extra time goals from Zimbabwean Tendai Ndoro and Mpho Makola.
While the result ended league leaders Sundowns’ drive for a Premiership-FA Cup double, it moved Pirates within two victories of a 2017 CAF Confederation Cup slot.
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The FA Cup winners fill one of two places reserved for South Africa in the annual second-tier African club competition with the club coming third in the league filling the other.
After finishing runners-up in the 2013 CAF Champions League and the 2015 CAF Confederation Cup, Soweto-based Pirates dream of conquering Africa again.
In 1995 they became the only South African side to win the Champions League then the African Cup of Champions Clubs by shocking ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast in the final.
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