Samuel Tenedu

Defensive Midfielder - Orlando Pirates
23 Oct 2035
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Marked for Samuel Tenedu

455 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Apr 2035

Masindi Nemtajela breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Apr 2035

Siyabonga Jali damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad16 Apr 2035

Samuel Tenedu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Orlando Pirates have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

Back issues
436 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

4 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 Nov 2034

Orlando Pirates march on in the cup

Bloemfontein Celtic are out and Orlando Pirates go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match2 Dec 2034

Orlando Pirates let it slip despite Kabelo Moagi

Kabelo Moagi had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Golden Arrows were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Sipho Chaine keeps Orlando Pirates in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings4 Dec 2034

Luther Phiri, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.62

A mark of 7.62 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Luther Phiri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Orlando Pirates have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings4 Dec 2034

A defender's goal wins it for Orlando Pirates — 7.48

1 for Nkosikhona Ndaba, marked 7.48, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Masindi Nemtajela stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Masindi Nemtajela and Orlando Pirates agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Dec 2034

Tempers go at Orlando Pirates

Thalente Mbatha was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match2 Dec 2034

Orlando Pirates leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

In brief

424 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

11 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Sep 2034

Bruce Bvuma decides it from twelve yards

3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad11 Sep 2034

A fracture rules Deano Van Rooyen out for 96 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Orlando Pirates will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match6 Sep 2034

Orlando Pirates march on in the cup

Free State Stars are out and Orlando Pirates go through, 3‑3 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings11 Sep 2034

A debut Siyabonga Vilakazi will not forget — 7.98

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.98 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match9 Sep 2034

No end in sight to Orlando Pirates's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Orlando Pirates has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad11 Sep 2034

Tempers go at Orlando Pirates

Thalente Mbatha was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match6 Sep 2034

6 goals as Orlando Pirates and Free State Stars go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Orlando Pirates and Free State Stars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad11 Sep 2034

Words at Orlando Pirates training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oswin Appollis is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings11 Sep 2034

Relebohile Mofokeng runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief