Outgoing Chippa United CEO, Morgan Mammila, has spoken about his relationship with the Port Elizabeth-based club's boss, Siviwe 'Chippa' Mpengesi, following his resignation earlier this week.
Mammilla, who joined Chippa in January as the club's CEO after parting ways with Baroka FC, announced his resignation from the Eastern Cape outfit on Tuesday, a few hours before the team's Absa Premiership match with Mamelodi Sundowns in Tshwane.
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"That's football life. The position of being a CEO of a professional football club is not just an ordinary position," Mammila told the Siya crew.
"He (Mpengesi) was supportive to all of us at the club. It wasn't just about me. When one is a chairman of a football club, he's got staff to lead and he (Mpengesi) has been good to all of us, from the coach to the drivers, and everyone," he added.
"When I came to Chippa they were on number 15 and down there (with their points tally). Despite the pressure, hard work helped me through all of it, and together with the team we got some good results at some stage during the season. I did my homework, I don't care who says what. I looked at the players at Chippa and compared to players at other teams, I realised that there had to be something (improvement) about the team's results.
"With them (Chippa) being the only team from the province, it was important that something was done (to save the club from relegation). In my role, it was important that I didn't only look at what was happening inside the field of play, but also outside of it, because of the support the club has been getting from the people of the Eastern Cape," recited Mammila.
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As one of the people who were credited for Baroka's Telkom Knockout triumph in December, Mammila is not ruling out a return to Bakgaga, with the Limpopo outfit also struggling at the bottom of the log like Chippa and fighting against being relegated to the NFD.
"People will always associate me with Baroka. They remember the things I did and achieved with the club. Baroka made me who I am. That will remain a fact. To me Baroka is more of a family business. It's more like my brother's (Khurishi Mphahlele's) business. If there is a need to go and help my brother, nothing will stop me from doing that. I am on speaking terms with him and we always talk about football and many other things," concluded Mammila.
