CHIEFS CLOSE IN ON UNWANTED CLUB RECORD
KAIZER CHIEFS’ goalless draw with Horoya in the CAF Champions league on Tuesday stretched to seven their winless run, their longest period without a victory in five years.
Chiefs are now closing in on the ninegame winless stretch they endured in 2016, which as it stands is their joint worst run since the start of the Premier Soccer League in 1996.
Chiefs also went nine games without a win in the 2001/02 season under coach Muhsin Ertugral, and matched that in the 2016/17 campaign with Steve Komphela at the helm.
Under Komphela they played to six draws and three defeats, while under Ertugral it was four draws and five defeats.
Interestingly, that run 20 years ago started the game after they lifted the African Cup Winners’ Cup on December 1, 2001! All nine matches were in the league.
Chiefs’ next two games are away in neutral Burkina Faso against Wydad Casablanca in the Champions League on Sunday, and then a scheduled trip to Limpopo to face TTM next Tuesday, though that fixture must be in doubt given their travel schedule.
If the TTM game is moved from next week then their next match is home to Angolan side Petro Atletico next weekend.
Chiefs have been on some horror runs in the past, they won just one of 15 games earlier in 2016, which if you combine with their nine-game winless streak later on saw them victorious in just five of 28 matches across all competitions between March and December.
But such is their Jekyll and Hyde nature, they then went unbeaten in 15 games, winning 10 of those.
THABANI KAMUSOKO is excited to be back with the Warriors.
He is part of the provisional squad for coach Zdravko Logarusic’s AFCON back-to-back qualifiers against Botswana and a home tie against Zambia at home four days later.
“I feel good and happy to be called for national duty and that makes me push hard everytime,” he said.
Kamusoko last played for the Warriors during the 2019 Afcon finals in Egypt then under Sunday Chidzambwa.
He says he has been working hard so that he earns the call-up.
“I am not sure but what I can say is I saw it coming because l have been pushing hard.
“I will just give my best when given a chance to play.
“Our chances are high, but we just need to win our games so that it becomes easy,” he said.