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6 Youngsters Tipped To Carry Chiefs’ Hopes

6 Youngsters Tipped To Carry Chiefs’ Hopes

Mfundo Vilakazi

There seems to be no slowing down for the Kaizer Chiefs factory of talent with the club's Head Of Technical and Youth Development Molefe Ntseki highlighting six players tipped to carry the club forward.

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Amakhosi have built a reputation for developing some of the finest young talent the country has seen.

As a result, their first team is littered with players who hail from the academy ranks while their current youth team are dominating the local scene scooping up one trophy after the other.

View the gallery below to see the players tipped to shine for Chiefs  

Mfundo Vilakazi
Mfundo Vilakazi
Takalani Mazhamba
Takalani Mazhamba
Thulani Mabaso
Thulani Mabaso
Puso Dithejane
Puso Dithejane
Neo Bohloko
Neo Bohloko
Siyabonga Gumede
Siyabonga Gumede

With the club having recently celebrated its 53rd birthday, it appears that the future of Chiefs is in safe hands with six players tipped by Ntseki to succeed at Chiefs.

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Takalani Mazamba (15-year-old goalkeeper) Thulani Mabaso (15-year-old midfielder), Mfundo Vilakazi (18-year-old attacking midfielder), Siyabonga Gumede, (18-year-old central defender), Puso Dithejane, (18-year-old right wing back) and Neo Bohloko (14-year-old striker)

"We have many excellent players in out academy currently. The six players I have picked out are part of a group of hardworking, highly talented young players. Looking at them holistically makes us very positive about the type of players coming through the system," he told the club's official website.

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