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WEDSON NYIRENDA (PART 1)

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Coach Nyirenda, it's great talking to you. Many supporters know you from the time you helped Baroka FC win the 2018 Telkom Knockout by beating Orlando Pirates in the final.

But you actually played for the great Kaizer Chiefs side of 1994 as Doctor Khumalo mentioned in his column. Ha, ha, ha, my former teammate Doc — the readers are not going to believe that he was a really funny guy in that Chiefs dressing room. He used to tell us a lot of funny stories before matches and we would all be in stitches and forget about the pressure of the actual match. That guy was everything and on the pitch he would make the game easy for everyone that was feeling pre-match pressure. I remember one day, one of our defenders at training was so hard on me. We were playing a compact small-sided game and I saw the defender coming at me with a lot of force. Doc passed the ball to me and it was a very hard pass. I just flicked the ball over the guy, while he ran past me on the other side and completely missed me and the ball, ha, ha, ha. When that happened, Doc was laughing so hard at the defender to the point that our coach Philippe Troussier had to stop the training exercise and do something else, ha, ha, ha. After that Doc came to me and said, “You did well, he wants to kick you all the time.” With Doc at training, there were never any dull moments.

But before you joined Chiefs, you spent time on trial at Lenasia Dynamos, training with Edward Motale before moving to Mamelodi Sundowns, Moroka Swallows and finally signing for Chiefs.