South Africa: Orlando Pirates welcomes Angolan Player – Gilberto Miguel from Petro de Luanda. The soccer player sealed the deal for $600,000. The South African football player, played recently at the last AFCON 2023 tournament.
Originally known as Deivi Miguel Vieira, is a professional Angolan footballer who plays as a winger for the National Team of Football for Angola.
Better known as Gibele, Gilberto began his senior career with the Angolan Third Division side, Real Sambila in the year 2019. Shortly, after that they moved to the Girabola with Libolo in 2020.
He then transferred to Petro de Luanda on a three-year contract, he helped Petro de Luanda win the 2022-23 Girabola and 2022-23 Angola Cup in his debut season.
Orlando Pirates Football Club (also known as ‘The Buccaneers’) is a South African professional football club, which is based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa, and known as DStv Premiership.
The team plays its home matches at Orlando Stadium in Soweto. Whereas, the club was founded in 1937 and was originally based in Orlando, Soweto. Popularly known as ‘amapirate’ which means ‘Pirates’ in IsiZulu after the band of teenagers that originally formed an amateur football club at Orlando Boys Club.
Notably, Orlando Pirates are the first club since the inception of the Premier Soccer League in 1996 to have won three major trophies in a single season back-to-back, having won the domestic league ABSA Premiership, the domestic cup Nedbank Cup and the Top-8 Cup MTN 8 during the ABSA Premiership 2010-11 season and domestic league ABSA Premiership 2011-12 season.
They are one of only two South African teams with Mamelodi Sundowns to win the CAF Champions League that they won, back in 1995. They are also the runners-up of the 2015 and 2021-2022 CAF Confederation Cup.
Orlando Pirates have won 9 league titles and 37 trophies in total including 10 South African cup trophies.