Kaizer Chiefs coach: 5 NEW names listed

Time is moving closer to the new season. Kaizer Chiefs are reportedly yet to find a new coach to replace Molefi Ntseki and his interim successor, Cavin Johnson. Meanwhile, five new names have been listed: Rui Victoria, Alexandre Santos, Julien Chevalier, Miguel Gamondi, and Florent Ibenge.

KAIZER CHIEFS TARGET FIVE NEW COACHES IN AFRICA

We’ve seen the previous list, Amakhosi are now thought to have found five new names to consider for the head coach job in 2024/25. The new candidates, as revealed by FARPost, boast of serious pedigree, especially the lead favourite Rui Victoria. The list also includes names with proven success on the African continent.

Rui Victoria in charge of Egypt at Afcon 2023. Image: @cafonline/X.

Here is the list of new names linked with Kaizer Chiefs:

• Rui Victoria, 54, Portuguese – Won eight titles in his career, including two league titles with Portuguese giants Benfica.
• Alexandre Santos, 47, Portuguese – Two league titles with Angolan giants Petro de Luanda.
• Miguel Gamondi, 57, Argentine – Won the DStv Premiership with Mamelodi Sundowns as co-coach with Neil Tovey in 2006/7.
• Julien Chevalier, 43, Frenchman – Won three league titles with ASEC Mimosas in Ivory Coast.
• Florent Ibenge, 62, Congolese – Won CHAN 2016 with DR Congo, as well as the CAF Confederation Cup and Moroccan Cup with RS Berkane in Morocco.

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Addiotionally, Kaizer Chiefs are also still linked with three South African coaches. The names are Pitso Mosimane, Benni McCarthy and Manqoba Mngqithi.

The club’s Sporting Director, Kaizer Motaung Jr, confirmed the club will demote Johnson to the development ranks, before announcing a new technical structure for next season.

“It’s something we communicated from the onset — Cavin has stepped in on an interim basis and we’re [committed] to having a different technical structure next season,” Motaung Jr said via TimesLIVE.

“I know we are focused on the next game and the next seven games and we have everything to play for. But yes, definitely the plans have long been in motion — we’ll be having a different technical structure next season,” the former Kaizer Chiefs striker added.

“Like I said, the wheels have been in motion for quite a while now. We’re also not just looking at it as if it’s a one-man coach; we’re looking at it in terms of what we need and we’ll be making all the changes we need to make that are going to take us in the direction we need to go in,” the bosses concluded.

LUKE FLEURS AND RICHARDS BAY

In the meantime, the Kaizer Chiefs team are on the way to Cape Town to bury the late Luke Fleurs in Mitchells Plain. The 24-year-old central defender was shot and killed during a hijacking in Honeydew, Gauteng on 3 April.

The club will then fly to KwaZulu Natal on Sunday to face Richards Bay in the DStv Premiership. The game will start at 15:00 from the King Zwelithini Stadium in Durban.