Komphela on changes at Sundowns: ‘Cement starts as fluid’

Steve Komphela believes that everything has worked out for the best at Mamelodi Sundowns after shuffling their coaches around.

Now the first team coach with The Brazilians, he previously worked with Rhulani Mokwena and Manqoba Mngqithi as a trio of co-coaches.

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Komphela upbeat about life at ‘Downs

The unusual arrangement didn’t last. In October 2022, Pirates beat Sundowns 3-0 in the MTN8 and the changes were rung.

Mokwena took over as solo head coach while Mngqithi dropped down into a senior coaching role.

Well on track to win the league again, Sundowns are also cruising in the CAF Champions League. Sundowns have won 17 out of 19 games in all competitions since the change.

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“There has to be clarity, order and maturity in an environment where people are deliberate and intentional about the process,” Komphela said.

“The process is clear enough to have a clear definition. It hasn’t had any glitches because everybody at Sundowns sacrifices themselves.

“The institutional success at Sundowns is there, whether you look at the previous coach, and the president, and the board are hellbent on seeing things work for Sundowns.”

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Ever the intellectual

As always the former Kaizer Chiefs coach, he coached the famous Soweto club from 2015 and 2018, was philosophical about the outcome of moving positions.

“I wouldn’t want to put it as an evil because, the moment I interpret it as an evil, it puts me in a position that I acknowledge it was evil,” Komphela said.

“I think it was a hell of a great arrangement because it was the same arrangement that made the transition to where we’re at now.

“If we started otherwise, would we have been in a different position? Nobody knows. Looking at how it started and how it transcended, it’s become solid like cement.

“Cement starts as fluid and once it’s baked by the sun, it solidifies.”

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