Career
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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese 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. 2010-2011 Season: Since Daine joined Pirates at the beginning of the 2010-2011 season, some Pirates supporters believed him to have been the lucky charm that brought trophies aboard. lieutenant was first domestic trophy for Pirates in years.
The last to have been in 2003.
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.
2011-2012 Season: This league title to have been Daine"s fifth in a row.
Klate joined legends, Andre Arendse and the late Ace Ntsoelengoe, as the only players to lift the league title five times. He made his national team debut in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal against Panama on 16 July 2005 and has so far been capped ten times scoring one goal. International Goals Club.
