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Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Pitso Mosimane is excited to welcome youngster Malebogo "Bale" Modise to the first team and believes he fits the left-back mould perfectly.
Modise was promoted to the first team this week, after coming through the development academy, and has signed a five-year contract with Masandawana.
Mosimane reckons the 21-year-old has all the tools he needs to challenge the likes of Tebogo Langerman and Lyle Lakay at left-back.
"We brought in Malebogo Modise, or 'Bale' as they call him. He plays as a winger, left-back, left-wing. He is easy to convert from left-wing to left-back because he has quality and a very good left foot," said Mosimane, as quoted by KickOff. "He's got speed, he's got height. He loves to play by going up and down the sides. He plays centre-back also because if you play centre-back it means you know how to defend. If you play left-back it means you also know how to defend and it means you know how to attack.
"Because the quality and the characteristics of our full-backs at Sundowns is Tebogo Langerman, Thapelo Morena, those are the characteristics, Lyle Lakay, you know, those full-backs who overlap. So Bale fits in that space.
"Bale is young, he's played in the under-20 at the World Cup and under-23, and he's been part of the under-17 World Cup also. So it's the right time to bring him over."
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