Kaizer Chiefs' reputation for enterprising football and silverware success has been tarnished in recent years. The club's trophy drought, stretching back to the 2015 league title, has deeply saddened and frustrated legendary Amakhosi full-back Nelson "Teenage" Dladla.
Chiefs' latest bid for silverware ended in heartbreak on Sunday, as they were eliminated from the Nedbank Cup by Motsepe Foundation Championship side Milford FC on penalties. This was after the game finished 0-0 after extra-time.
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Since then there have been much more inquests with regard to what is going wrong at the club and questions as to what Amakhosi need to do to set things right.
Reacting to the defeat on the Karabo Phasha YouTube podcast, Dladla expressed his profound disappointment.
“Yoh, you know, I don’t know how to put it but it’s saddening, painful. Eight years without a trophy a team like Kaizer Chiefs no ways, no ways, no ways,” Dladla told the Karabo Phasha YouTube podcast.
The South African football icon further revealed how he often faces taunts following Chiefs' losses and trophyless seasons. His coping mechanism, he shared, is to remind fans that the current team is not the same one he represented with distinction.
‘Sometimes, they come to me…ja, ja that Chiefs and I say you are beating this Chiefs not my Chiefs (who he was playing for in the past), okay?” Dladla said.
With their Nedbank Cup hopes shattered, the Soweto giants now shift their focus to a crucial DStv Premiership derby clash against Moroka Swallows on Saturday afternoon.
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