Kaizer Chiefs legebd Reneilwe Letsholonyane has opened up about leaving the club in 2016 when Steve Komphela was at the helm.
Former Kaizer Chiefs star Reneilwe Letsholonyane has opened up about leaving the club and what he regrets the most about not working more with Steve Komphela.Yeye won nine trophies with theHe left Kaizer Chiefs just after Steve Komphela’s first season in 2016.
“The last season, I had a knee injury that… at times I didn’t understand, I would go to the doctors do the scan and whatnot, and they would see nothing but I’d still have pain in my knee so it took longer than expected initially,” he told“I still played some games… we went to two finals, MTN8 and Telkom Knockout lost both, it was Steve Komphela’s first season at Kaizer Chiefs, when the season ended,” said Yeye.
“I didn’t think I did justice to the team, I didn’t think I did justice to the coach, justice to a black coach that was given an opportunity – to coach a big team like Chiefs.“It was always that foreign coaches are the best coaches, so I felt in disappointed myself, the coach, the supporters. And with self-introspection of what went wrong besides the injuries, I was in a comfort zone and I didn’t like that.
“Winning one or two of those cup finals would have bought him time – we could have bought him time to stay long, to get to do what he wanted to do, to get in line with the philosophy of the club, get the players he wanted for a longer period.”
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