A crisis can bring out the best in a coach‚ Kaizer Chiefs boss Giovanni Solinas said‚ summing up his nervy start at Amakhosi and the response that saw three convincing wins in a row. In truth‚ Solinas still appears a little overawed by his surroundings at one of Africa’s biggest-supported football clubs‚ even after recording his third win in eight days with Saturday’s 2-0 Premiership victory against AmaZulu. A 4-1 thrashing of Cape Town City away last Saturday‚ a 2-0 win with a virtual B team against Free State Stars away on Tuesday‚ then a convincing win against Cavin Johnson’s tough AmaZulu have transformed Solinas’s outlook at Amakhosi. After just three weeks of preseason and having to backpedal through August without a win — during which time the matches came thick and fast and there was little time for Solinas to train with his new team— the coach said he used the Fifa international break to start conveying his identity to his squad. Having first established that he will play e...
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