Muhsin Ertuğral walks away from the position after only a month at the helm and a disastrous run of games to show for it
Lebohang Maboe’s inevitable move to a big club hit hard and the experience of Bavan Fransman walking out didn’t help matters
A revolt in the dressing room could lead to players deliberately throwing games to punish the gaffer
Ajax Cape Town are preparing to face Golden Arrows in the MTN8 finals after edging out Kaizer Chiefs in a six-goal thriller on Sunday.
Ajax Cape Town coach Muhsin Ertugral is confident he can score a major upset when his side meet Kaizer Chiefs in the MTN8 semifinals on Saturday.
Orlando Pirates coach Ruud Krol stressed it will be a new ball game when they face Ajax Cape Town for a second time in five days at Newlands on Sunday
Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral’s services are in big demand.
The long-awaited Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates on Saturday has more at stake than pride.
Free State Stars coach Steve Komphela reckons his two big guns will be too strong for Kaizer Chiefs’ unpredictable defenders to handle on Saturday.
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/ 31 December 2008
The match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs has been switched from Loftus Versfeld to the Johannesburg Stadium.
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/ 17 October 2008
Imagine the calm that hovers in the half-light before Muhsin Ertugral’s alarm clock heralds the start of another day of madness.
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/ 23 September 2008
Kaizer Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral won the psychological battle of the MTN 8 cup final coaches at a press briefing in Durban on Monday.
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/ 22 September 2008
Muhsin Ertugral could have made the wisest move of the season when he opted to return to Johannesburg from a rain soaked Durban.
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/ 16 September 2008
Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Emille Baron is ready to do duty for his team in the sold-out MTN8 Cup final against Mamelodi Sundowns.
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/ 15 September 2008
Kaizer Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral has called on the South African Football Association to ban Maritzburg United’s Gary Goldstone for 10 weeks.
Should the Kaizer Chiefs coach be dancing when another MTN 8 semifinal looms?
Kaizer Chiefs took apart their arch-rivals Orlando Pirates 2-0 in the third match in the Vodacom Challenge series on Thursday night.
Kaizer Chiefs face test when they face English and European champions Manchester United in the opening Vodacom Challenge match at Newlands, Cape Town.
Kaizer Chiefs will parade their new-look side when they tackle European giants Manchester United in the Vodacom Challenge at Newlands, Cape Town.
Itumeleng Khune and not Teko Modise should have been named the Premier Soccer League’s (PSL) best footballer this season if coaches had voted along the lines they suggested to the Mail & Guardian this week. The credibility of the selection is being compared to that of the Zimbabwean election.
Free State Stars’ on-form striker Diyo Sibisi is hoping to equal or overtake former Moroka Swallows star striker James Chamanga’s goal tally when the season ends on Sunday. Sibisi and Chamanga are front-runners for the Lesley Manyathela Golden Boot Award.
Regardless of how they fare in this weekend’s final matches of the football season, SuperSport United and Ajax Cape Town have a lot to be proud of. Both have had a season made in heaven. Considering that both lost influential coaches — SuperSport’s Pitso Mosimane joined the national team brains trust and Ajax’s Muhsin Ertugral went to Kaizer Chiefs — they were expected to struggle.
Bloemfontein Celtic were beaten 2-0 by Kaizer Chiefs at Loftus on Wednesday night in an Absa Premiership clash, with the Free State side outperformed by a team who playing their best soccer of the season. Amakhosi’s late surge has effectively earned them a place in next season’s Top Eight competition.
Conventional wisdom has it that this weekend’s Soweto Derby will be the worst since the PSL was founded. For the first time in years both Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are having their worst seasons simultaneously. Chiefs are ninth on the log, two places higher than their rivals from across the Orlando railway line.
It was all action, but little satisfaction for Kaizer Chiefs and Santos in a helter-skelter 1-1 Premiership draw at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday night that left both teams’ objectives unfulfilled. Chiefs are no better off from sharing the spoils than they were before the game.
The unpredictable Moroka Swallows were flying high after delivering a crushing blow to Ajax Cape Town’s Premier Soccer League title aspirations with a come-from-behind 2-1 victory on Sunday. In other matches, Sundowns beat Chiefs 1-0; Celtic and Leopards drew 2-2; and AmaZulu and Platinum Stars drew 0-0.
There were mistakes all round — and it was one final error by hapless referee Thabo Nkosi that paved the way for Kaizer Chiefs to enter the last 16 of the Nedbank Cup with a tense 2-0 extra-time victory over Ajax Cape Town at King’s Park Stadium in Durban on Friday night.
Platinum Stars maintained their impressive record against Kaizer Chiefs as they held the Soweto club to a 0-0 draw in a Premier Soccer League match at the Loftus Stadium on Wednesday evening. Chiefs remain in 12th place with 24 points from 21 games and Stars stay put in ninth place with 26 points.
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/ 24 February 2008
He may not have scored the most goals in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) this season, but Elias Pelembe can arguably be credited with the most valuable goals — as SuperSport United’s Mozambican midfielder proved once again at a stunned Loftus Versfeld on Saturday night while adding to Kaizer Chiefs’ woes.
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/ 21 February 2008
Kaizer Chiefs were let off the hook by Wits University at the Bidvest Stadium on Wednesday night while gaining only their third Premier League win in 17 games this season to vault four places into a flattering eighth position in the log. But, it must be concluded, the Wits side played distinctly dumb soccer and were their own worst enemies while going down 2-0.
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/ 19 February 2008
Chiefs are thirteen points behind log leaders Ajax Cape Town and are occupying 12th position in the Premier League log. Now, with a bitter attack from chairperson Kaizer Motaung on the tactics of coach Muhsin Ertugral, can things get any worse for the tottering PSL giants?
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/ 18 February 2008
After Kaizer Chiefs lost 1-0 to Thanda Royal Zulu on Wednesday evening their chairperson Kaizer Motaung voiced his displeasure on the club’s website. ”Clearly the technical team has become more defensive by playing a lone striker system that also has no supplier or some innovation in penetration,” Motaung said.