10 Things You Don’t Know About Daine Klate

Daine Klate is one of the country’s talented and gifted midfielder to come out of South Africa. A product of Supersport United’s youth academy, left-footed Klate is fast, tricky and has a powerful shot as well. He is probably one of the best free-kick takers in South Africa. These are 10 things you don’t know about Daine Klate.

1. Klate hails from Gelvandale, a former coloured township  in Port Elizabeth. He started playing football for his primary school in Gelvandale at the age of eight and continued with the sport in high school.
2. Like fellow South African international Elrio Van Heerden, Klate played for Port Elizabeth-based amateur football club Glenville Celtic as a kid
3. At age 15, he moved to Gauteng to play for the Transnet School of Excellence, an institution that has produced a host of Bafana Bafana stars including Steven Pienaar and Dillon Sheppard.
4. In 2002, he joined the Supersport United Feyenoord youth academy.
5. Klate, has made over 100 league appearances for Supersport United. Being one of the key players of United’s back-to-back-to back Premiership wins in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
6. In 2010 Klate joined Pirates and played for the Bucs from 2010-2015 and made 87 appearances for the Soweto giants.
7. He made his national team debut in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal against Panama on 16 July 2005 and has so far been capped ten times scoring one goal.
8. Klate re-united with Gavin Hunt in 2015 at Wits.
9. Daine Klate, already the most successful individual player ever in the PSL, netted two goals and an assist as Wits thumped Mamelodi Sundowns 3-0 at Mbombela Stadium in the MTN8 final on the 1st of October 2016.
10. The only accolade Klate does not have is CAF Championship.