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Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena has highlighted Kaizer Chiefs’ new change. Image: @iDiskiTimes / Twitter

Rhulani labels Chiefs with big scientific word

Can 15:00 on Saturday come already? Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena has described the new Kaizer Chiefs.

Kaizer Chiefs

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rhulani Mokwena has highlighted Kaizer Chiefs’ new change. Image: @iDiskiTimes / Twitter

Surely Kaizer Chiefs coach Arthur Zwane will read this and chuckle, thanks to the way Mamelodi SundownsRhulani Mokwena has described his team with a rather big scientific word.

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MAMELODI SUNDOWNS COACH RHULANI DESCRIBES NEW KAIZER CHIEFS

Fancy learning a new word or hearing one you have not come across in a long while? Everyone has been describing the new Amakhosi team with words like overhaul, revamped, and new era, but not Mokwena.

Speaking to the media ahead of the big clash this weekend, Mokwena who is notably a football nerd, sees the Glamour Boys as a team that has gone through a ‘metamorphosis.’ When last did you hear that one? Maybe in a science class at school.

According to the scientific definition, a metamorphosis is “the process of great and usually rather sudden change in the form and habits of some animals during transformation from an immature stage (as a caterpillar) to an adult stage (as a butterfly) metamorphosis.”

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“There’s a huge metamorphosis – it’s not even a change, it’s like the team has taken a different direction, particularly from the vision that the club, you can see, has set,” Mokwena said as quoted by SABC Sport.

“And when you watch them now, the strategy in the transfer market is also to get younger players like boNyaope [Mahlatsi], Solomons, and they also promote and give opportunities to Bruce Bvuma, Mduduzi [Shabalala].

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NO MORE RELIANCE ON VETERANS

The Soweto-born coach added to highlight how the likes of Steve Komphela, Ernst Middendorp, and Gavin Hunt had counted on older legs such as Ramahlwe Mphahlele, Bernard Parker, and Erick Mathoho.

“That is the direction that they’ve taken [now] and a direction they haven’t taken in a very long time. When you look at the last three coaches [they’ve had], there would have been a heavy reliance on players like Rama [Mphahlele], [Bernard] Parker, and [Erick] Mathoho,” the former Orlando Pirates coach added.

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“But it looks like the cycle is changing from how the vision has been set from the top, and therefore that influences a lot more things like the selection of the coach, which is Arthur and he knows the DNA of the club, he played for them, worked in the academy and served as assistant to many of the [previous] coaches.

“That also influences their recruitment policies because you’ve seen the market now, even when there are certain bigger players available, they’ve resorted to going for a Yusuf Maart and [Ashley] Du Preez, who are relatively a lot younger than what would be available for Chiefs in a normal context of a couple of years ago,” Mokwena concluded.

Make sure to catch the Sundowns and Chiefs battle from the Loftus Versveld on Saturday at 15:00.

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