Kaizer Chiefs have long been hailed as South Africa’s leading club for being both the country’s most successful and most supported team.

The club has also become a rite of passage for young, great players to wear the club’s famous Kaizer Chiefs gold jersey.  For the 2009/2010 season their new home and away kits will continue to be a desired item, capable of inspiring, joyful and brilliant football both on and off-field.

In keeping the authentic football passion alive, Nike and Kaizer Chiefs officially unveiled their new 2009/2010 home and away kits on field at the revamped Orlando Stadium in Soweto – both iconic destinations considered by many to be the home of football in South Africa.

The notable changes to the new home and away kit will give the Amakhosi a bold and striking appearance to pursue even more success. Continue Reading

Pitso Mosimane is the one of the few young local coaches who has joined the elite group of successful coaches in South Africa. The other one that comes to mind is Gavin Hunt of Supersport United. Like the rest of Africa, we seem to have a propensity to import coaches from overseas, with a few African coaches like Shepherd Murape also having been given a chance to establish themselves.

However, the big clubs seem to think that their coaching jobs are too high profile for local, let alone young local coaches. I commend Moroka Swallows for taking a risk on the relatively inexperienced Ian Gorowa and appointing him Head Coach at Swallows. This raised many eyebrows among the soccer fraternity, and the media didn’t help by criticising the appointment and predicting a gloomy outcome.

This put a lot of pressure Gorowa and the club, and, the minute results stopped coming, the club were forced to sack the novice coach. However, times have changed. One of the biggest clubs in the world, FC Barcelona, entrusted the coaching reigns to Pep Guardiola who had previously been the coach of the Barca B team. Continue Reading

New Kaizer Chiefs coach Vladimir Vermezovic has set his sights on the ultimate win in SA soccer!

Victory over Orlando Pirates in the Vodacom Challenge Soweto Derby at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Thursday, July 23 (20h15 kickoff), will not only guarantee his team a place in the 10th anniversary grand finale of the world-class club tournament against Manchester City, but will also see him get his SA coaching career off to a great start with the passionate Kaizer Chiefs supporters.

“Friendly games don’t get played anymore, and in this era of professional soccer, every game is a must-win,” said Vermezovic, who is from Serbia.

“Playing against one of the world’s richest clubs in Durban on Tuesday, July 21 will be a tremendous honour for me as well as my players, but at the end of the day, Orlando Pirates, in sporting terms, is our age old rival and it is a result that must come our way.”

“The Vodacom Challenge matches will also outline the way in which the players respond to my style of soccer strategies and I am really looking forward to the tournament.” Continue Reading

Kaizer Motaung has done very well as a soccer entrepreneur by starting and growing Kaizer Chiefs into arguably the biggest soccer brand in the country. The same applies to John Comitis who owns Ajax Cape Town.

He’s built this club into a sustainable long-term business with fantastic infrastructure. Patrice Motsepe is a mining entrepreneur who has not shown any acumen in sports despite his noble and very grand intentions.

For Patrice, Mamelodi Sundowns is like a sideshow which he is not giving the attention it needs to be really financially successful. He is just throwing money at it with very little strategy. Then there is Dieter Bock who bought Moroka Swallows and is only seen once or twice a year at the club’s prize-giving ceremonies. Continue Reading

Kaizer Motaung has not yet communicated his rationale behind the appointment of his club’s new Head Coach to the press Continue Reading

Kaizer Motaung has just appointed the Serb Vladimir Vermezovic as Head Coach of Kaizer Chiefs. He had vowed to look overseas Continue Reading

The business of soccer, like life in general, is dynamic with continuous improvement required to face new challenges. Continue Reading

Jomo Sono was an iconic player in his day, but he has failed as a soccer business leader. To put it bluntly he doesn’t have the nous to turn Jomo Cosmos FC into a viable and cutting-edge soccer brand in the long-term. Continue Reading