Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Molefi Ntseki has broken silence on his shortened tenure at the Soweto giants.
Ntseki was shown the exit door last month after the team’s Carling Knockout Cup [CKO] exit against AmaZulu. The former Bafana Bafana mentor was only in charge for four months at Amakhosi.
His time at Chiefs was underwhelming as he won only four games, while getting booted out of the MTN8 and CKO.
The club’s fans, on three occasions, threw objects at him to register their displeasure.
WHAT LESSONS NTSEKI LEARNED FROM CHIEFS JOB?
He believes his time at Chiefs provided “the best lessons” because the difference between club football and international football.
At club level, Ntseki says “you are confronted with a high level of tactical demands every day”.
“The difference is that with SAFA you identify and profile for a period of two months. [It could be] one month looking for those specific qualities in terms of your planning going to play against Ghana, Sao Tome, Egypt. [This is] in terms of their style and the type of qualities they have and what you want to achieve in that game you are going to play.
“And you have time to prepare over that period. When you get into the game it becomes a pressure period a week before and a pressure period during the game and a pressure period a week after the game and you start your own projections.
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“But with Kaizer Chiefs, it’s a bit different. You are confronted with those pressure periods every minute, every second,” he told iDiski Times.
He admitted there was constant pressure that came with the demand to win matches at club level.
“And you go into a game, back-to-back matches every week, you are expected to win.
“The pressure that comes with it, is not only on you as a coach. But you’re trying to take away the pressure from the payers to say, tactically we need to work towards what you want to achieve.
“Irrespective of the results, at the end of the day we have to work for good results. We have to give a good performance, we have to enjoy being on the pitch, we have to enjoy working for Kaizer Chiefs.”
KNOCKS YOUR CONFIDENCE
With results not coming, Ntseki said “it knocks your confidence”. Constantly, he had “to motivate yourself” and continue pursuing the vision.
“You don’t sleep, you sleep less, you prepare more and you implement your preparations. They always say, if you prepare more, you have less repair to do. I think that was my slogan to say, ‘let me prepare more, so that I have less to repair’. So that is the life of Molefi Ntseki as a professional coach.”