Daine Klate

Daine Klate

Personal information
Full name	Daine Marcelle Klate
Date of birth	February 25, 1985 (1985-02-25)
Place of birth	Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Left-winger
Club information
Current club	Orlando Pirates
Number	7
Youth career
0000-2000	Glenville Celtic
2000–2002	Transnet School of Excellence
2002–2004	Supersport United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2010	Supersport United	138	(29)
2010–	Orlando Pirates	12	(2)
National team‡
2005–	South Africa	10	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 6, 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of July 6, 2011

Daine Klate (born February 25, 1985 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Orlando Pirates and 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.

Early life

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.

Club career

Like fellow South African international Elrio Van Heerden, Klate played for Port Elizabeth based amateur football club Glenville Celtic as a kid. 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. In 2002, he joined the Supersport United Feyenoord youth academy.

Since being promoted to the club's first team as a 19-year old in 2004, Klate has made the left-wing position at Supersport his own and has made over 100 league appearances for the club. Being one of the key players of United's back-to-back-toback Premiership wins in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In 2010 he signed with Orlando Pirates.

International career

He made his national team debut in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal against Panama on July 16, 2005 and has so far been capped ten times scoring one goal.

International Goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2008-10-01	Germiston, South Africa	Malawi	3–0	3–0	Friendly match

Honours

Club

• Premier Soccer League 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010-11
• Nedbank Cup 2011
• MTN 8 2010
• ABSA Cup 2005
• SAA Supa 8 2004

External links

• Career history at National Football Teams
• Daine Klate on Twitter