Molefi Ntseki has explained how his previous role as Bafana Bafana coach has helped him to adjust at his role as Kaizer Chiefs head coach.
Ntseki took charge of Amakhosi just before the club started their pre-season and had to jump straight into preparing the team for the new campaign.
After starting the DStv Premiership with just one point from his first three games, the former Bafana coach picked up back-to-back wins to saw his side climb up the log.
Ahead of the first leg in the MTN8 semi-final against Mamelodi Sundowns, Ntseki explained that his previous role as Bafana coach helped him in terms of profiling the players at Naturena.
“I think with me accepting the position as head coach of Kaizer Chiefs, mentally I had to sight myself with me being in the club for the past two seasons,” he told journalists.
“But the tactical approach was more of a Bafana Bafana coach. You come into a club and you have to move into a pre-season, in three weeks time the league has to start, so how do you bring about understanding any player that you? How do you profile the players going into the first league match?
“I think that has worked out very well. That experience from Bafana Bafana really came into play and it really helped me. Because when you’re in charge of Bafana you’re brining in players from all walks of life – some from overseas with different playing philosophies, different ways of playing.
“But I think with me coming into Kaizer Chiefs and having coach Arthur and coach Sheppi around, it made my life a little bit easier.
“The most important thing is how do you put yourself inside the circle? With the circle I mean the players that have been there and the players that are coming in.
“And how do you make each one to understand each others qualities, and how those qualities can be combined and give the team an approach, and I think they’ve done very well.
“It’s work in progress. We are being tested and we are studying very hard to pass this test. You can’t ask for a particular type of test for you to do well, it comes in different ways.
“AmaZulu comes with a different approach, Stellies comes with a different approach, we’re playing Sundowns now, it’s a different approach, different qualities of players, but at the same time we have to adjust, at the same time you have to play the game to win.
“To play to win you have to come up with a strategy that we work for here every day,”
