Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates have battled each other for the best talent in the country for decades. Here's how Amakhosi won this round.
Kaizer ChiefsWhether the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s or 2000’s Chiefs and Pirates enjoyed an advantage when it came securing the best talent!
In those days money was not the objective, motivation nor even present in South African football. What the players had was the love for the game and their clubs. What attracted one to a Chiefs or Pirates was the desire for trophies or even popularity. Alternatively, in a case where both wanted you, you’d pick the club you or your family members support.
But what happens when you know that both are interested and one has agreed to sign you without your knowledge. That seemed to be the case forChiefs agreed a deal with Swallows for Biyela behind his back “I still remember how Kaizer Motaung and my father agreed to a deal behind my back. It was somewhere around the 1996/97 season. I knew that SuperSport United, Orlando Pirates, and Kaizer Chiefs were interested in my services. I was a Moroka Swallows player by then, unaware that my father had finished negotiating with the likes of Stan Tshabalala, and was pushing me in the Kaizer Chiefs direction .
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