The scar above Pitso Mosimane’s left eye gives him the steely look of a warmonger. It gives the person on the receiving end of his piercing stare a window into his battle-worn soul. The Mamelodi Sundowns coach is ready to take his place among two people who took a South African team to a CAF Champions League title — Joe Frickleton and Ronald Mkandawire, who each coached a leg of Orlando Pirates’ 1995 final win over Ivory Coast’s Asec Mimosas. Mosimane carries with him to Alexandria, where blood-thirsty Egyptian fans are waiting with infrared laser beams to put off his players, the healthiest lead a South African club has ever taken north for a second leg of the decider. Sundowns’ sensational 3-0 win at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium last weekend surpassed the tenuous 2-2 draw the Buccaneers took to Abidjan in 1995, the 1-1 draw the 2001 Brazilians took to Al Ahly and the 1-1 Pirates arrived with in Egypt when they faced the same Red Devils in Cairo in 2013. But history has been p...
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