Seale backs Chiefs to topple Zamalek in Polokwane

A FORMER Kaizer Chiefs defensive stalwart believes Amakhosi have the beating of Zamalek when the two clubs clash in Matchday two of the CAF Confederation Cup at Polokwane’s Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday.

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Rudolph Gardner Seale, a Chiefs left-back from the late eighties to the early nineties, says the current Chiefs team is strong and has some seriously talented players who can hold their own against the continent’s best. Granted, Chiefs were beaten 2-1 by Zamalek’s fellow Egyptians El Masry in Suez on Matchday one last weekend, but that is not to say they are not good enough, according to Seale.

“Yes, they can,” was his forthright answer when I asked him if Chiefs can beat Zamalek.

“T look at this team and everyone is good. Of course the Egyptians will be the favourites. We know that the Arabs, the North Africans, are old campaigners with lots of experience. But it is not a given that they will progress from this group. Chiefs have just as much the same chance as those two to go through. They just need to believe in themselves.”