Itumeleng Khune on Kaizer Chiefs’ poor form: ‘This thing is affecting me badly’
Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune has criticised some of his new teammates for being "star-struck" and explained how badly it affects the team.
Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune has criticised some of his new team-mates for being “star-struck” and explained how badly it affects the team.
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Amakhosi are currently sitting in 14th place in the DStv Premiership standings after a bad start to the new season.
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The 35-year-old shot-stopper has claimed that some of the new Glamour Boys still don’t believe they are wearing the Gold and Black jersey, hence it’s weighing heavily on them.
Khune added that he is delighted to have returned to action after being out for over a year, but is aware of how difficult it will be to keep the number one spot.
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‘WE HAVE NOT COME OUT OF OUR SHELLS’ – KHUNE
“It feels great to be back and playing regularly, it won’t be easy to keep the spot for long because the other goalkeepers, Bruce Bvuma and Brendan Peterson, are waiting for their opportunities as well,” Khune said as quoted by Sunday World.
“So, every match that I play I give an extra 10% on top of the 100% that I always give, and it’s really good to be back.
“We are not doing badly, but it is not the start that we wanted and my role and responsibility is to keep on reminding the guys how good we are and how much we can believe in our ability to get ourselves out of the situation that we have put ourselves in.
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“We have to work hard at training and take everything we do there to the matches and we score beautiful goals at training and everyone is doing everything they can in their respectable positions but during matches, I am not sure what gets into our heads, because I think we do not give what we give at training,” Khune added.
“This thing [the position we are in] is affecting me badly, every player has his role and responsibility to make sure that the club goes back to its glory days. Like I said, for now a lot of us are still star-struck and we still do not believe that we are playing for Chiefs.
“We have not come out of our shells and realise that we are at Chiefs and start performing like Kaizer Chiefs players.”
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