{"id":68270,"date":"2018-07-11T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68270"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:40:23","slug":"patrick-mabedi-out-of-kaizer-chiefs-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/11\/patrick-mabedi-out-of-kaizer-chiefs-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mabedi out of Kaizer Chiefs\u2019 job"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY RONALD MPASO:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s Premier Soccer League giants, Kaizer Chiefs, have ruled out the possibility of hiring former Flames skipper, Patrick Mabedi, as the club\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

Chiefs Football Manager, Bobby Motaung, told Kick- Off.com <\/em>that there was no chance for Mabedi to occupy the hot seat as he believes the Malawian is not ready for such as challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cMabedi definitely will never be the head coach of Kaizer Chiefs. He is a caretaker coach. He has been an assistant; that is why we got him as an assistant. He has got quality; he is delivering as an assistant. But being a head coach is something else,\u201d Motaung told the website.<\/p>\n

Mabedi has been Chiefs\u2019 acting coach<\/a> since the resignation of Steve Komphela in April after three years without silverware.<\/p>\n

He said Chiefs appreciate Mabedi\u2019s contribution to the team as a player and coach; hence, the club\u2019s commitment to continue supporting him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Mabedi, so far, is under good structures. He has shown it under pressure in the last three games [of last season], not because he is the hero but because of the structures of the organisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will support him all the way but coaching Chiefs is running a government. We must make sure we are sober and make the right decision,\u201d Motaung is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Mabedi is training the team in the pre-season and is expected to lead it on Saturday in the Maize Cup against Chippa United, Free State Stars and ABC Motsepe outfit Buya Msuthu.<\/p>\n

The Glamour Boys are also expected to play champions, Mamelodi Sundowns, a week later in another pre-season cup.<\/p>\n

Reports in the South African press are rife that Chiefs could re-unite with their former mentor, Stuart Baxter, who is coaching Bafana Bafana.<\/p>\n

Baxter\u2019s return would not be good news for Mabedi as the Englishman is understood to be in favour of working with the club\u2019s legend, Doctor Khumalo.<\/p>\n

But a former Chiefs and Bafana Bafana player, Patrick Mayo, sympathised with Mabedi, saying bringing in a new head coach will be a setback for the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cMabedi will work hard in the pre-season and a new face might come and change all of the ideas and Mabedi will now look useless,\u201d Mayo told Goal. com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY RONALD MPASO: South Africa\u2019s Premier Soccer League giants, Kaizer Chiefs, have ruled out the possibility of hiring former Flames skipper, Patrick Mabedi, as the club\u2019s head coach. Chiefs Football Manager, Bobby Motaung, told Kick- Off.com that there was no chance for Mabedi to occupy the hot seat as he believes the Malawian is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68274,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions\/68274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}