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KICK OFF: How have you been dealing with all the changes that have come from leaving Kaizer Chiefs following a decade long stay at the club?

Willard Katsande: You will obviously feel the change from the first day. Spending 10 years at Chiefs and getting familiar with the daily operations, to then be moving to a different team, brings about different dimensions. As a professional you need to learn to be able to adapt to any situation and conditions, but these are changes that you will feel considering you will no longer be seeing the faces that you were seeing for the past 10 years on a daily basis. But a change is always good in life for the sake of growth. Nature is such that we meet to part and then part to meet, so it is a matter of accepting your next step and the minute you accept this is the new life, you are bound to start enjoying everything around you.

How did you digest your departure from Chiefs, considering how long it takes to process a separation from a club that you have been with for so long?

You got to have it in you in terms of mental strength. It is easier for me now because I am

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