One of the many things that I do that makes me very happy. Coaching these boys and giving them opportunities in a village that doesn’t really get much. Making these boys believe that they have a space in this world and in football.
@TimuYaWatu
will grow to be a big team.
Lucky Lekgwathi's restaurant is not even three months old. Now is in complete and utter ruin. Tomorrow when he's struggling, the same people who ruined his business and his livelihood will say he wasted his money when he was playing football.
Confirmed:
@SAFA_net
CEO Teboho Motlanthe says they have already lodged a protest with the match commissioner that they want the referee to be investigated. Safa will also get an independent expert to write a report which will be submitted to FIFA to request a replay of the match
I repeat. England v Norway can’t give you this. Denmark v Belgium can’t give you this. Portugal v Malta can’t give you this.
This is the AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS!!
I don’t know of any player who’s never had a difficult period. And I will never forget all the times you showed up for our country and it’s children. We know why and how the Lion of Judah was born. Chin up, Muzi. You still have a lot to offer.
There is bitter section of South African fans who can't stand the fact that Bafana Bafana are actually winning with less fancied players. They would rather criticize and tear into this team. They are still stuck in the past.
This game has to be proof to many that Rhulani Mokwena is a coach. A top coach. 40 minutes of the 90 with a man down, then 22 in extra time and you are holding a high flying Kaizer Chiefs at 2-2? All this with a man down? Credit where it's due.
Pitso Mosimane is in advanced talks to join Egyptian giants Al Ahly as their new coach. He will leave with Rhulani Mokwena, physical trainer Kabelo Rangoaga should this move materialize. He's leaving for Cairo in the next few days and has told Sundowns he's resigning.
Tlou Segolela is the Football Manager at promoted Platinum City Rovers. City Rovers will play in the Glad-Africa Championship next season. City Rovers beat Glendene on penalties to move to the final of the ABC Motsepe Playoffs, and gained promotion to the NFD.
ICYMI - PODCAST - TS Galaxy Coach Sead Ramovic reveals that he likes Kaizer Chiefs, but says, coaches without qualifications are delaying the development of football in South Africa.
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Steve Komphela starts work tomorrow at Mamelodi Sundowns as a First Team Coach. Manqoba Mngqithi and Rhulani Mokwena remain Head Coaches. So basically, Steve will be the assistant, and it is understood he is happy to report to Manqoba and Rhulani. Very interesting this one.
The Wydad Casablanca fan culture, and that of other teams like Belouizdad, Al Ahly, Zamalek, Esperance, Setif is something South African fans can learn from. Two hours before the game, all fans are at the venue. They sing all game, even if they concede. Beautiful football culture
We don't talk about THIS Ronaldo enough. 20 years of age. Moves from PSV to Barcelona. Scores 47 goals in all competitions in his debut season. He became the youngest player to win the Ballon d Or. That was some insane stuff for a 20 year old.
Lucas Ribeiro Costa is a good football player. He doesn’t rush things, and he seems to always be aware of where he is on the pitch. He made many good passes today, held the ball when he should and released to the right person when he should have. And he’s got composure.
“I am going to be honest. This game (between Chippa and Sundowns will be bigger than the Derby (Soweto Derby) and it will be bigger than the match between Chiefs and Sundowns” - Chippa United coach Morgan Mammila on PowerFM 987.
"There is a problem in South Africa. Some teams have an excessive number of players. Some of those players don't even play, and that will make it hard for us to select in the national team for the future" - Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos.
"I don't have time to speak to agents. They are there to defend players. I don't have to speak to them. If they call, the call will not take 10 seconds. I will hang up and block the connection" -
@BafanaBafana
coach Hugo Broos.
"I have experience in the Champions League. I ran this thing here for eight years alone. I ran it alone. Even now at Al Ahly, I am running this thing alone. So I have experience in this thing." - Pitso Mosimane.
Manqoba Mngqithi says Mamelodi Sundowns tried to sign Vinicious Junior before he joined Real Madrid. He says Sundowns also tried to sign Luis Diaz before he joined Porto, and now Dias is at Liverpool. The Sundowns scouting network is really working, especially in South America.
Stuart Baxter is coming into the country next week. He's taking over as the new Kaizer Chiefs coach in the new season. This is after Gavin Hunt was sacked as Kaizer Chiefs coach today. Arthur Zwane takes over as interim coach to finish the season.
𝗜𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗‼️
One of the
#NFD
players you can expect in the
#DStvPrem
next season is Tatenda 'Camavinga' Tavengwa of Venda Football Academy.
"We are getting firm enquiries for our midfielder, Camavinga... we'll lose him," confirms our source at VFA.
#PSLTransfers
SuperSport United using their youngsters for this match instead of postponing, forfeiting, locking gates or causing drama. Look at that bench and a number of starters. What a football club.
Radio royalty. I true legend. Rre Mabena. Bra Bob. What you have been to us, to me, was massive. You carried us.
#PowerBreakfast
was always a joy, a pleasant experience. Knowing you, working with you has been an education. I'm gonna miss you, Rre Mabena. Rest well, Sandawana.
How do you not get inspired when you listen to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and former Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke? To me, these are some of the smartest men of our times. Men of stunning intellect and impeccable integrity.
#POWERTalk
@Powerfm987
PODCAST - LISTEN to Al Ahli Saudi coach Pitso Mosimane explain his situation with the Saudi club, why they have not been paid, and whether he would join Kaizer Chiefs.
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Two Qatari sides and Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr are leading the chase for Pitso Mosimane's signature. They have been ready to pounce when they caught wind that Mosimane may leave Al Ahly.
Bafana Bafana are through to the semifinal of the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 2000. Ronwen Williams with four saves in the penalty shootout. What a star, what a hero!!
We meet Nigeria in the semifinals.
Bafana Kaofela!!
Cape Town Spurs CEO Alexi Efsthathiou boldly tells me on my show that “Cape Town Spurs v Cape Town City will be the second best derby in the country after Pirates v Chiefs. Who gets excited when Sundowns players SuperSport? There is no spice there.”
#PowerSportExtra
There is no need keeping faith in Stuart Baxter after this. Either give Arthur Zwane the job, or look for a coach who hasn't allowed modern football to leave him behind. The Chiefs hierarchy needs to also clean out and look for better players. Spend money!!
Football fans can be so vile, man. They can have such terrible hearts when they want. Outside of being footballers, these guys are human beings with emotions. They don’t deserve this. I’m so disgusted, man.
The last time I saw a player use both the right and left foot with equal precision and clarity was when Abia Nale was at Chiefs and then Aces. Before then, it was Gift Leremi. He had the same power and control. Now you have Cassius. Left or right, he controls, dribbles, shoots.
Shaun Bartlett says he is happy that he will not be making trips to Venda next season, and he says “I hope there is no DStv Premiership in Venda next season.”
It’s crazy how Mvala has been doing so well without any plaudits. But I know people are waiting for him to make a mistake so they can start talking about him. He can have five great games, and no one will say anything. But first mistake, people will be there.
"As a human being, I have been blown away by Teboho’s character. The first day he arrived, he asked for his videos clips, he asked for the team’s video clips in relation to our principles and our schemes. He wanted to know how we play."- Rhulani Mokoena.
It will always be impressive to me how Mamelodi Sundowns players revere Themba Zwane. Like, all his teammates just seem to love him and hold him in high regard. You have to be a great human being outside of just being a great player, for everyone to love you like this.
Many players I've spoken to have described Ndumiso Mabena as a special player. Coaches who have worked with him say he's insanely talented. Lots of fans never agreed with the above.
Prime Lesiba John Shoes Moshoeu is the best footballer I have ever watched in this country. That Shoes who dazzled in THAT Bafana Bafana jersey. To this day, he remains untouchable in my eyes. Oh, what a beautiful feather.
“I am the youngest chairman in the league. I am not talking about people who got in there because of inheritance or because their parents owned clubs” - Chippa Mpengesi.
This is the conversation for the week. For those who don’t know, our national team Bafana Bafana is playing on Saturday against Benin. This is a World Cup qualifier and it’s not in Gauteng (it’s at Moses Mabhida) at 3pm. Let’s go support the boye. Bafana ya rona!!
Do you really believe Bafana Bafana is not doing well because of Sundowns? That Chiefs and Pirates don’t win leagues because of Sundowns? That Wits, Highlands Park, Celtic and Free State Stars went down under because of Sundowns?
We don’t have a problem. We will welcome you the day you guys choose to support Bafana Bafana with us. South Africa is for all of us. Bafana is for all of us.
Steve Komphela – Mamelodi Sundowns First Team Coach
On Rulani Mokwena:
First of all, the guy is unbelievably intelligent. He is brains, brains, brains. You never get into coaching and succeed at a young age without brains, he’s genius.
I ask a simple question to Danny Jordaan in this Safa press conference: at what point did you realize as Danny Jordaan that you would need three teams terms?
My God, I did not expect the responses. All hell broke loose. SAFA NEC members start attacking me and the media.
Morgan Mammila is the first coach this season to guide a team to four successive league wins. Rhulani Mokwena and Manqoba Mngqithi managed three, Arthur Zwane too did three. Gavin Hunt is on three. Pirates coach Jose Riveiro has never won back to back league matches this season.
"What is sweeter about this is beating a collaboration. At FNB, you can not use the Chiefs changeroom. But this change room was opened for Al Ahly against us. Winning was sweeter because Chiefs was being spiteful. Wydad wanted us to train at our facilities, we refused." Mngqithi.
"You can't pay Pitso what you pay South African coaches. He's not competing against South African coaches. He's competing against coaches on the continent. So you have to go to the bank to ask for overdraft" - Patrice Motsepe.
#Sundowns
"Four referees, theyre coming out, five minutes before the game, in the warm up. Theyre hugging here, theyre hugging there, they hugging John Paintsil, theyre hugging Tshabalala. You can see already, they are members of the family" - Ernst Middendorp, 26 September 2016, Randburg