Kaizer Chiefs title push: Doctor Khumalo says it is overdue

Kaizer Chiefs legend Doctor Khumalo hopes for the start of a bright new era under Nasreddine Nabi while a rival reveals what to expect.

Jul 21, 2024 - 15:00

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Kaizer Chiefs title push: Doctor Khumalo says it is overdue

Kaizer Chiefs icon Doctor Khumalo has bemoaned the continued lack of competition for Mamelodi Sundowns in domestic football.

Sundowns cantered to a sixth straight Premiership title last term.

Khumalo said he was frustrated watching a season unfold in such a predictable fashion.

Doctor Khumalo calls on Kaizer Chiefs to stand up

He feels that the other teams and top talents need to do more to compete with Sundowns.

“I have a simple question for you: How does it feel to watch your opponents walking up to the podium to receive awards while watching them on television? There are individual and team awards,” Doctor Khumalo wrote in the Soccer Laduma magazine.

“I still wonder how it feels to watch opposition players and teams collecting awards while sitting in your lounge and watching them on television. Once again, I really hope that someone will show up and challenge Sundowns next season.

“The more players and teams raising their hands next season, the better it will be for our football. That’s how the game will be interesting and catch everyone’s eye. Everyone will start getting more interested in the game.”

Kaizer Chiefs are the only currently active PSL club other than Sundowns to win the Premiership in the last ten years and their last triumph came in 2015.

Bidvest Wits lifted the trophy in 2017 but the club sold their franchise in 2020.

Sundowns have won 13 of the 27 Premiership seasons contested and sport a huge lead over the Soweto Giants, who each own four PSL trophy wins.

While Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are most likely to mount a challenge, there are also ambitious clubs in the Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal who would love to shift power in SA football.

Nabi era begins

Former Orlando Pirates coach Fadlu Davids believes that Nasreddine Nabi can get Kaizer Chiefs purring again

“I think I’ve been misquoted a lot of the times, ” Davids told iDiski Times.

“I think people misunderstood where I said he is a direct coach. I’m talking about how he was the most attacking [team], he scored the most goals in Morocco.

“He was the coach that was always on top of us, it was so difficult to always play against him.

“It’s exciting times for Kaizer Chiefs, I think he will do extremely well there,” added the former Bucaneers coach.

“Tactically it was never an easy game. There was always something he came up with against us to expose our weaknesses and he’s an attacking coach, that will move forward at any moment, that will attack.

“He will play a brand of football the Kaizer Chiefs fans will enjoy and I wish him all the best as well. It’s been a very difficult season in the end for him [in Morocco] but a fantastic season overall for FAR Rabat what they had last season.”