Another Kaizer Chiefs coaching target scratched off the list?
Another Kaizer Chiefs coaching target scratched off the list?
Kaizer Chiefs could be edging ever so closer to making their final decision on their new coach.
Chiefs are searching for a new coach, who will come in with his own technical staff for the new season.
It’s believed Chiefs are willing to give the new coach and his staff authority to lead them in a new era. Amakhosi have not won silverware for the past nine years now and currently fighting to finish in the top eight. The risk of going a full decade without a trophy is surely giving the club’s management sleepless nights. It is for this reason that, this next coaching appointment could be undoubtedly the most significant in the clubs history.
Chiefs searching for new head coach
Currently interim coach Cavin Johnson initially harboured ambitions of becoming the permanent coach at Chiefs. A run which saw Chiefs winning three of their last four games of 2024, saw Johnson in with a shout. But now according to the latest, the club are back looking at other candidates. There have been the likes of Pitso Mosimane and Manqoba Mngqithi in a local sense. Internationally, Jose Peseiro, Vanderlei Luxembergo , Raul Caneda Perez and Nasreddine Nabi.
Speaking of Nabi, he was not the only coach linked to the Chiefs role ahead of the current campaign. The other was DRC-born mentor Florent Ibenge.
Ibenge’s name was recently mentioned again but he may end up at Simba SC instead of Chiefs according to Soccer-Laduma.
Ibenge on Simba’s radar instead?
“The Tanzania Football Federation has accepted Al Hilal’s request to play in the Tanzanian Premier League, but the prospect of playing in the division without any consequence to their results does not seem to appeal to Ibenge. The former Democratic of Republic Congo head coach is thus said to want to leave, and one of the clubs looking to swoop in and land his services is Simba SC. The Reds of Msimbazi recently parted ways with Algerian tactician Abdelhak Benchikha after they failed to mount a serious title challenge to bitter rivals Young Africans SC.” wrote the publication.
It’s unclear whether Ibenge was on the current Chiefs coaching candidates list, however.