Manyama warming up for Chiefs in 2021. Photo: Twitter
What Chiefs ladies told Manyama
Former Kaizer Chiefs attacker Lebogang Manyama has described the true weight of his move to Naturena in 2018.
Manyama warming up for Chiefs in 2021. Photo: Twitter
Lebogang Manyama’s move to Kaizer Chiefs may not have been a success, but the actual transfer was special enough.
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The road to Naturena was long. Starting in Alexandra to Tembisa, SuperSport United, Ajax Cape Town, Black Aces, Cape Town City, then Turkey’s Konyaspor, the retired midfielder known as ‘Kaka,’ finally became a Glamour Boy in 2018.
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A SPECIAL WELCOME AT NATURENA
Speaking to the media after his shock retirement due to injury this month, Manyama described the move to Amakhosi as a dream come true that was long overdue.
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“From the first day, I got into Chiefs even the ladies, the ladies that clean at Chiefs, that tidy things up for us, at the canteens and stuff at the village, and they came to me when I got into the gate and they told me, ‘You are finally here, we’ve been waiting for you five years now!” Manyama said as quoted by iDiski Times’ Lethabo Kganyago.
“And I couldn’t really believe it, even these women knew what was happening. For five years it’s been at the back of their minds, so these are people that have been watching me over and over again, even though I didn’t play for the club. Already I felt at home with everybody. I made a lot of friends”
“I was friends with even the gardeners there at Chiefs, the security they will tell you, everyone, because I think from where I come from, I believe in treating everybody the same, more especially if we want to work together we have to treat each other with the same respect.
“No one is above anybody else. It’s only titles that will put that. But on the human side, I do it for that, that everybody deserves their respect, and they’ll tell you at Chiefs that I respected everybody, I gave my all,” Manyama added.
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Meanwhile, the 32-year-old Manyama is working on finding a new livelihood after a stubborn knee forced him to hang his boots.
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