There are no shortcuts to Mamelodi Sundowns being the reigning African Champions. The club is using one of the best technical models that you will find in modern and scouting forms a critical part of it. The Brazilians scouting department headed by Walter Steenbok caters for both youth development and the senior team, focusing on talent identification, recruitment and assessment. Steenbok lays out the Sundowns scouting network blueprint. It’s a fact that Sundowns has not promoted a number of youngsters in the last few years but many will admit that at youth level they’ve got some of the best youth talent in the country. They had three players in the Amajita squad that went to the U20 World Cup in South Korea. And some of their talent is loaned out to PSL and NFD clubs, Steenbok says the bar is very at the club.