A prayer for Kaizer Chiefs to live up to their role in SA
IT IS not an easy issue, this. It is understandable that Kaizer Chiefs could lose to a team such as Moroka Swallows but, SuperSport United, no ways.
Chiefs’ recent Chiefs losses lacked glamour. There was also a lack of humour. The current Chiefs coach was not convincing when speaking on radio about the team’s losses. He whimpered non-stop. I was embarrassed.
See, I do not think that Amakhosi are capable of losing like they are under Steve Komphela.
We need to remind Bra Steve that Chiefs’ fans are not used to the team losing. Now, suddenly, they have to get used to draws and losses. Tell me, why?
Methinks we need to chat to Bra Steve. We need to chat more than 90 minutes. Serious talking. This calamity is not very nice. It is not an exhibition of the Kaizer Chiefs’ ethic. It is foul. The proud culture of the team also dislikes it.
Kompela knows that. He used to play for Amakhosi. So how come we are being chowed now under his command?
Look, I am not saying he must be fired. He just needs some reminding that he is not coaching an ordinary outfit. The team has a big name and a bigger role to play in South African soccer.
If he knows it, he does not seem to appreciate it. Knowing the Kaizer Chief supporter, he is soon likely to be reminded in a crude way about the royal ways in this team.
On a side note, I was wondering about the whereabouts of erstwhile wonders like Botsotso Teenage Dladla. Where is he? I recently heard of Doctor Khumalo being a coach of another team, but, hey, we need the likes of Dladla helping in the coaching of the team. I know that their involvement will charm the natural energies of the team.
Kaizer Chiefs are not merely a moment in Soweto. It is a continental hour. Africa is very well aware of this South African moment. Most aspiring players in Africa, I heard, want to be associated with this poetry in football. Who wouldn’t?
If I was not a poet I would be playing for Kaizer Chiefs. The team is a proud moment in football.
Remember Neil “Mkhukhu” Tovey? He is the man who captained the Bafana Bafana team that won the African Cup of Nations. He was also a Chiefs player.
The tradition of the team is great. Okay, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates want to compete with Chiefs now and then. They like to be thought of in the same terms as Kaizer Chiefs: humble football royalty.
It is important that we fix the current Amakhosi trouble in order to fix the South African soccer discourse.
It is important that our country awakens to this reality, so that we can see the many bright moments in South African football. It is important that our humility in football be translated in the dynamics of society. That dynamism has a beautiful texture of some expressions in sport.
There is a plea here that Amakhosi be reminded that discipline is majestic and that even the dynamism of nations are carried in it.
In other words, this is not merely an uttering limited to a football team, but rather ululating the majesties of performance. We have a country that badly needs this and the discipline in the performances of entities like Chiefs train us about the humble glamours of this thing called life.
We need to embrace these glamours, so that the charms of life can be understood as humble. It is for me a great joy to know that our majesties and races are not merely in our physical human glamour, but also in how we live our lives.
So a prayer for a new performance stance in the Phefeni Glamour Boys is also a call that will affect these people and this nation.
Don’t tell me I am being too serious. Kaizer Chiefs is a serious moment in the life of not only this country, but the whole continent. That is why the team must show us the seriousness and charms of discipline. It is not impossible, but great in the steadiness of following the positives of this moment called life.
It is also not a chivalrous boast of the mighty Amakhosi, but an attempt to say we are charming in the humble expressions of life.
Football is one of them.