Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune says Kaizer Chiefs okeeper Bruce Bvuma didn’t take his recommendation.
The 37-year-old added that Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana captain Ronwen Williams was the one who took his recommendation, therefore he has improved.
Itumeleng Khune, the previous Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, said that Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Bruce Bvuma didn’t heed his recommendation. The 37-year-old acknowledged that Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana captain Ronwen Williams took his recommendation, which contributed to his enchancment.
“I used to be grooming Ronwen,” Khune informed iDiski Occasions.
“When he got here to Bafana, I informed him we aren’t right here to make pals. We’re right here to compete. You make me higher, I make you higher, we make the nationwide workforce higher. So, he took these phrases, and I fail to know why Bruce Bvuma didn’t take heed to that recommendation.
“As a result of now, the best way he’s struggling, he ought to have taken my recommendation once I gave it to him. He may very well be primary nonetheless, he may very well be among the finest candidates within the workforce and the nationwide workforce. However now he’s additionally inconsistent as a result of he thought I play with Itu in the identical workforce so I can’t take his recommendation, however somebody who got here from outdoors appreciated my phrases. Now he has taken soccer by storm. He’s been to the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards, and I talk with him virtually on daily basis.
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“He’s the boy who listened at a really younger age. Me and Ronwen, we spent greater than 10 years collectively at Bafana. He knew when he was coming to camp, Itu is primary. He stored telling me I wish to be primary, someday and I used to be like ‘In order for you that, we aren’t right here to be pals, you should work exhausting for it. Carry out at your membership, come to the nationwide workforce, carry out at coaching, perhaps the coach will give it to you’.
“However at my prime, I used to be all the time up there, and I used to be like, nobody goes to come back in to take my primary.”
Itumeleng Khune labored with Bvuma at membership degree and competed with Williams at nationwide degree.
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