Sharing a similar story with Kaizer Chiefs new signing, Bernard Parker has revealed why Thabo Cele would not regret coming back home to play for Amakhosi.
The Glamour Boys tried a number of times to sign Cele from 2021 when he was playing for Polish club Radomiak, with suggestions that he was unsettled abroad.
The Kwamashu native midfielder, however, decided to join Russian club Fakel Voronezh in August 2023 and was seemingly enjoying his game, before circumstances back home made him to return to South Africa.
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Chiefs moved swiftly to sign the 28-year-old as a free agent and the former South Africa junior international made his debut in the Soweto derby against Orlando Pirates.
Parker, who has played for the likes of FC Twente and Red Star Belgrade abroad, has suggested that there is no feeling better than playing in the Soweto derby, after he also debuted against The Buccaneers following his signing by the Glamour Boys from Twente.
"I wanted growth, I wanted to go to an established team, there were talks here and there and when Chiefs came, I said 'Why not? Let me come back home'," Parker said on Izinja zeGame podcast with Josta Dladla.
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"First game derby! I even scored a free-kick. It was amazing. The atmosphere was second to the World Cup (compared to playing in Europe), remember a year after the world cup I came to Chiefs.
"That atmosphere was something else, it's a feeling you can't describe, the adrenalin is something else. It's the same year Benni McCarthy joined Pirates, we lost both our league matches (against Pirates) where Benni scored a brace," Parker added.
Cele came off the bench against the Ghost and has already started to make a difference in the Amakhosi teams, after he started subsequent matches against AmaZulu and Stellenbosch.
