DF: Go on... KC:

Diempie Defender 15 the chance and I never looked back.

Just the small things Thami will say to me… like, when I get home, I think, ‘Thami said this to me, and I can feel it now. Like, this is becoming a reality.’ The players have helped me a lot. I have learned a lot in those five years, and I feel like now I can always learn. I need to put stuff behind me and say that’s the past now. I need to focus as well on being a regular, doing well for the team and doing well for myself as well.

DF: How important was working with Benni for you because he has been hailed for his man-management skills?

KC:

He gave me my debut, and when you are still young, you feel you are just making mistakes after mistakes. I felt like at some stage I was tired of making mistakes, I just needed to pay Benni back but when

Cape Town City Diambars Academy, AC Ajaccio B (France), Bidvest Wits

Busquets. I watch the likes of Rivaldo Coetzee, Mobara and Tara locally. Those are the players that I feel like can do it as well. When you watch Manchester City as well, John Stones coming into the midfield role, it feels like he’s a midfielder, so I learned a lot from those guys. Rivaldo, they do it at (Mamelodi) Sundowns as well, where he’s building as a midfielder, comfortable on the ball, great passer of the ball as well. For me, it’s just like I need to watch, and you can always learn as a player. Football is changing a lot now, it’s more tactical, so players need to play in two positions. I feel like I need to learn and I need to improve and I need to go in the direction that football is going. So, I can’t be a centre-back and just be a centre-back. It’s either I can be a centre-back, a number six, a right back. I need to change and I need to do

2018/19 MTN8 winner, 2021/22 MTN8 runner-up (both with Cape Town City), 5 national U23 caps, 1 national U20 cap