Komphela joins Downs as first team senior coach
His role will be as first team senior coach and to report to the joint head coaches.
Steve Komphela has joined Mamelodi Sundowns technical team. His role will be as the first team senior coach and to report to the joint-head coaches. Komphela joined the Brazilians at training on Monday morning and received a warm welcome from the players and the staff.
“First days are very anxious but I am very delighted to be part of this great and successful team.”
“Joining a team of this calibre, expectations will always be there and beyond that joining Coach Rulani and Coach Manqoba at their head coaches positions, it’s all about coming together and sharing ideas for the club’s best interest.
I would also like to thank the president and the board for this opportunity,” Komphela said on the club’s website.
He will be working with some familiar faces that he has coached during his career, some of them at junior and senior national team levels.
“I have worked with some of these superstars here, but it was amazing to come across the cream that you meet at the training ground,” he said.
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“Every person and every face you come across, every eye you connect with you see just sparks of quality and the energy was there. You could feel that this is an environment that is so fertile, that success should also be a possibility and to not underestimate the fact that the success they built is actually the enemy currently because they have to get better from what they have built.
“It has to be maintained and worst-case scenario it has to be surpassed which is what (coaches) Manqoba and Rulani have mentioned, so it is a great environment,” said the 53-year-old mentor. Komphela started his coaching career at Manning Rangers in 2002, and has gone on to coach in the national team structures with Bafana Bafana and the under-23s.
Some of the teams he has coached are Free State Stars, Maritzburg United, Dynamos, Bloemfontein Celtics, Kaizer Chiefs and Platinum Stars which is where he got to meet Rulani Mokwena.
Sundowns open the new DStv Premiership campaign with a clash against Bloemfontein Celtic on Sunday in the MTN8 encounter.
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