Watch VideoKaizer Chiefs management must take accountability for the crisis: Phakamani, Ixesha Lifikile

CALLS for Kaizer Chiefs managemen to make the call to replace co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef as they continue to look out of ideas with each passing game. The phrase ‘Phakama, ixesha lifikile’ (Stand up, the time has arrived) is usually echoed when someone is being urged to step up and rise to the occasion. But such is its significance, the Kaizer Chiefs management, particularly the sporting director, Kaizer Motaung Junior, must step up and take accountability for their crisis – for the time has arrived.

Chiefshave been on an incredible slide,losing their last four games in a row– a feat that resulted in them missing out on the CAF Confederation Cup and all but falling behind in the Betway Premiership title race. That decline has come under the stewardship of co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef. The fact that the duo had momentarily looked the part in leading the team as they potentially stood a chance of winning a treble – the Betway Premiership, the Nedbank Cup, and the CAF Confederation Cup – notwithstanding.

The wheels have since come off, and questions that were raised when they were appointed, following the sacking of their former master and head coach, Nasreddine Nabi, have resurfaced: “On what grounds were they trusted to lead the team until the end of the season when Chiefs could have hired a renowned coach with notable track records?” Well, the answer to that lies with Motaung Junior. His appointment of the duo is proving to be not only costly, but immature as well. Motaung Junior would have done better to perform his due diligence post Nabi’s departure.

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One must ask how he came to the conclusion that while Nabi was not good enough to coach the club anymore, his former right-hand men were. You’d expect that while the onus rested with the coach, the technical staff still had their say in all operations.

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