Chiefs will make the hard decisions, says Jessica

JESSICA Motaung says Kaizer Chiefs are not a mid-table team, and the club have been having hard conversations with regards to finding ways to moving up to the top, where they belong.

- MATSHELANE MAMABOLO

Having finished out of the top eight in the past two seasons and only ending what has been a decade-long trophy drought by winning the past campaign's Nedbank Cup, the Amakhosi have lost their shine as the country's Glamour Boys.

But Motaung, the club's marketing director and daughter of chairman Kaizer, says they are intent on changing all that in the upcoming campaign.

"Ninth and 10th (positions) is not great for us, and part of the hard conversations we've had is that we cannot find ourselves there (again)," Motaung told media at the club's Taung Village in Naturena, Johannesburg on Thursday during the launch of this year's Toyota Cup.

Chiefs announced that they will be facing Ghana's Asante Kotoko at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium on July 26 in a match that pits 'Africa's fallen giants' against each other.

Like Chiefs, Kotoko have recently fallen on hard times and only finished third in the Ghanaian league.