‘Coaching Chiefs is something different’
KICK OFF: How difficult then was it for you to change the style of play at Kaizer Chiefs after you took over from Baxter, because they won the league with a transitional approach?
Steve Komphela: Yo … yo … and I hope Stuart takes this with the utmost kindness but his game was very result orientated … very productive and the results showed. There is visible and invisible success. His success was visible, you could count the trophies. Stuart is white and I am black and knowing our history and background, those are serious contrasts. You are coming in [and taking over] a highly successful team, you change a bit of terms of philosophy and you want to play a more sustainable game, enterprising game and you want to get results. The danger is that when do that, it must yield results. If you come up with that change, and you are untried and untested, and haven’t been winning trophies … then when it doesn’t work, on the back of them winning, you can imagine that. But I still had to believe in it because I feel strongly that’s how I prefer my teams to play.
“THERE ARE SOME COACHES WHO SEEK VENGEANCE, THEY ARE ANGRY. BUT WITH ANGER YOU WILL NOT GO TOO FAR.”
The club’s profile also, I suppose, demanded you had to change?
Exactly. But how do you
