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Daine Klate Personal information Full name Daine Marcelle Klate Date of birth February 25, 1985 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 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, 2011Daine 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.
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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
South Africa squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup Categories:- 1985 births
- South African association football players
- Living people
- People from Port Elizabeth
- SuperSport United F.C. players
- Association football midfielders
- Cape Coloureds
- South Africa international football (soccer) players
- 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Orlando Pirates players
- South African football (soccer) biography stubs
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