Speaking ahead of the campaign, the Bafana Bafana defender stressed the importance of ending the club’s domestic trophy drought.
“We haven’t won a local cup competition in about four years and we want to go back to winning local tournaments,” Modiba said.
“You win the Champions League and crash out in the MTN8, it won’t look great to our supporters and everyone associated with the team. We need to keep the momentum going in this tournament because it has been a long time since we won a domestic trophy.”
Modiba also highlighted the desire to reclaim the Premier Soccer League title after losing it last season.
“We want to win the league again because the feeling of losing it was not nice. Some of us never experienced it, so we want to go back to that feeling of winning the league every season. It is important to win the league because if you do you go back to the Champions League. We always want to do well in the Champions League and get our gold badge back.”
The comments underline Sundowns’ determination to dominate both domestically and on the continent in the coming campaign.