Still In Touch With...Fees Moloi (Part 2)

Fees Moloi, who joined Kaizer Chiefs from Manning Rangers in 2000, says, “Of all the teams I played for, that was the most professional. That one I don’t doubt! There, they valued everyone, from the players right down to the cleaners, gardeners and security guards.” However, things did not go his way at Amakhosi and the well-travelled former striker concedes the timing of his move was not the best and that, with results not going his way and pressure at an all-time high, coach Muhsin Ertugral opted to use the players who had been in the set-up for longer. This is Part Two of Moloi’s Still In Touch…

- Lunga Adam

Fees, let’s continue from where we left off last week. You must have had more interesting experiences during a football career that took you to nine clubs!

Yeah, yeah. One of those interesting experiences was the use of muti, which was common practice at some teams in those days. Well, I, for one, had a problem partaking of such rituals, which led to me being singled out as a sell-out by colleagues, coaches and club management. My belief was, if I pray, I pray to who? If I use that mixture that the club uses, who is in charge of the mixture? Because we used the mixture and then still went onto the field and trained. So why couldn’t we just go and play? People who liked it would use it, but nna (me), shame, I think maybe it was because of my background that I didn’t use it. We are still Christians at home, so I don’t believe in that, but teams believed in it when I was still playing. However, there is one coach that I can single out, out of all the coaches that coached me, who stood firm and said, “I don’t want to see this. If I see this or hear that any of my players had been using muti, two ways – either that player goes or I go.” That was Gordon Igesund. You come to Gordon and talk about muti, you go or he leaves immediately – finish and klaar! I was with him at Manning Rangers and when I went to Santos, he was already there. With him, no muti.

Hmmm…