Daine Klate
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Daine Marcelle Klate | ||
| Date of birth | 25 January 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Port Elizabeth, South Africa | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left winger | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Bidvest Wits | ||
| 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 | 101 | (24) |
| 2010–2015 | Orlando Pirates | 87 | (7) |
| 2015– | Bidvest Wits F.C. | 52 | (10) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005– | South Africa | 13 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 May 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 December 2013 |
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Daine Klate (born 25 January 1985 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Bidvest Wits 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.
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.
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.
2010-11 Season
Since Daine joined Pirates at the beginning of the 2010-11 season, some Pirates supporters believed him to have been the lucky charm that brought trophies aboard. In his first Knockout competition in the Pirates colours,the MTN 8 Cup, Pirates won that trophy via penalty shoot-outs in Durban against Moroka Swallows. It was first domestic trophy for Pirates in years. The last to have been in 2003. Since then Pirates went on to win the treble that season. Picking up the Nedbank Cup (defeating Black Leopards 3-1 at the Mbombela Stadium) and Pirates third Premier Soccer League title. The last league title was in 2003. This was one season where Pirates played all available official games in the season, having lost the Telkom Knockout in the final against Kaizer Chiefs. Pirates also played all the finals that season. This title was the fourth in a row for Daine Klate who had won three consecutively with his former team, Supersport United.
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