Ntseki happy with Chiefs’ start to the season, sees positive progress

Kaizer Chiefs’ head of technical and youth development Molefi Ntseki has been impressed with the team’s start to their campaign. 

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Chiefs come from a difficult and taxing season of mixed fortunes where they struggled to make the top eight in the DStv Premiership, but played the final in the Caf Champions League. 

Amakhosi’s bad run last season culminated in the firing of then coach Gavin Hunt within a season of him been hired. The changes in the technical team saw the return of Stuart Baxter as head coach and the surprise appointment of Ntseki.

 Chiefs have drawn one and won one of their opening league fixtures. They also lost on penalties to Mamelodi Sundowns in the MTN8. 

“The two league games against TS Galaxy and Baroka were very important for us,” Ntseki told the club’s website. 

“We were looking to do well in the first match and win and get the three points to give us confidence and a breather of some kind going into the second match against Baroka. 

“The tactical strategy was to win the Galaxy game, which we unfortunately drew. But any point is important, you will need those points at the end of the season. 

“Against Baroka we scored two good goals in the first half. We missed an avalanche of goals and chances, which were created from very good team play, and good team tactical understanding. In the second half we conceded the odd goal, but it was a good win,” says Ntseki.

While his job is to ensure that the senior team is well looked after and consistently produces required results, he also has to look after its future – the development players. He says the training manual for the club’s academy is solid and should ensure properly developed players are produced if applied correctly. 

“When it comes to the club philosophy and manual, I have gone through the KC youth development academy manual and understand it well. I need to commend the people who worked on the manual, as it contains information on what the club wants out of its development in terms of tactical, physical, psychological and social aspects of player development,” says Ntseki.