Mamelodi Sundowns' foreign players registrations for the second half of the season has set them up for a new leaf in the history of domestic football.
Sundowns' allotted five foreign players for the remainder of this season are all South Americans for the first time ever.
This is a first for a South African top league club.
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The Brazilians now have Arthur Sales and Lucas Ribeiro Costa (both Brazil), Matias Esquivel and Lucas Suarez (Argentina), and Marcelo Allende (Chile).
Sales, Costa, and Allende have been with the club since while Esquivel has returned from his loan at Club Atletico Talleres.
Suarez has arrived at Chloorkop on loan from Tallares.
Bolivian midfielder Erwin Saavedra was the fourth foreigner prior to Esquivel and Suarez arriving but has been deregistered as he makes his way out.
Sundowns have had the biggest number of South Americans through the years and in the 2019/20 season they also had five in Ricardo Nascimento (Brazil), Jose Ali Meza (Venezuela), Emiliano Tade (Argentina), and the Uruguayan pair of Mauricio Affonso and Gaston Sirino.
However, in that campaign Nascimento wasn't registered for the first half of the season leaving the fifth place to Ivorian defender Bangaly Soumahoro.
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Then in the second of that season, Tade left while Affonso didn't play.
Other players from Latin America that have been at Chloorkop in recent times include Leonardo Castro (Colombia), Bryan Aldave (Uruguay), Jorge Acuna (Chile), Vincente Principiano (Argentina), Eduardo Ferreira (Brazil), Jose Torrealba and Rafael Dudamel (both Venezuela).
Denis Onyango (Uganda), Divine Lunga (Zimbabwe), and Peter Shalulile (Namibia) now play as non-foreigners.