Kaizer Chiefs is a great example of a real club and not just another team, says a club official from Ivory Coast powerhouse ASEC Mimosas. ASECs general manager Benoît You visited Amakhosis headquarters at Chiefs Village while on a trip to South Africa and shared his thoughts on the setup at the countrys most popular club. This is magnificent, the ASEC official told the Chiefs website. In Africa there are a lot of teams. But there are not a lot of clubs. A club is more than a team. A club has numerous supporters, a fixed training centre with the club’s headquarters based there as well, a media centre, has won a lot of trophies, has a history and has a reserve team as well as an academy to groom the club’s players of the future. “Kaizer Motaung and [ASEC Mimosas chairman] Roger Ouégnin are friends with respect for each other. They both have a vision. Chiefs is a real club. It’s amazing what I see here. It’s something to be proud about.” He added: Hopefully we will meet one day in an African Champions League final. Two great African clubs fighting it out, who will be crowned African champions? The two sides did actually meet as recently as this years CAF Confederation Cup in May when ASEC beat Chiefs 3-1 on home-and-away aggregate. Chiefs marketing director Jessica Motaung added: ASEC is a top club in Africa. Our relationship goes back to the first Vodacom Challenge in 2009, when we beat the Ivorians 2-1… It was great for him to see how the Village is growing with us soon also having our youth development structures here. It’s always important to exchange information, we learn from each other.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:26:04 +0000
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