Former Kaizer Chiefs co-coach Cedric Kaze, who was sacked at the beginning of the week, has questioned the club’s CAF Champions League target, which they failed to secure.
Kaze left the club along with the rest of the technical team after spending two seasons in Naturena, having arrived with Nasreddine Nabi in 2024.
Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef had the tough task of guiding the team to a top-two finish so that it could secure a CAF Champions League spot, as requested by the club’s sporting director.
The Burundian coach admitted that the Champions League target felt somewhat unrealistic and “not logical.”
He pointed out that prior to this ended season, the club had been absent from continental football for six years, only returning after their Nedbank Cup triumph under Nabi.
“They did mention that they wanted a Champions League spot, which when you look at it,” said Kaze during the interview with Robert Marawa on MSW.
“You take the history of the club for the last five years. I feel it’s not a logical target and because as well, we finished outside top eight, it’s been six years that the club hasn’t been in CAF.
“We went there this season when we won the Nedbank Cup, and that’s why we say we live with a mind that we have done what we could with the resources that we had.
“It’s probably, they want to go [to Champions League] you can’t also blame them for that. I truly believe that in how we play and the statistics of the team improved from the last few seasons’.
“I’m glad we got the opportunity to do what we love and we leave the team in a better position than what we found it at.”