With another cup tie looming and the noise growing louder for Kaizer Chiefs to finally end their eight-year trophy drought, coach Molefi Ntseki is not agitated.

During the draw last week, Chiefs as one of the eight-seeded teams, was pitted against AmaZulu as they try and lift this new trophy and claim a winners’ cheque of R6.6m. Saturday’s match will be the two teams’ second meeting of the season after meeting in the DStv Premiership back in August. Amakhosi were 3-0 winners in that match.

The former Bafana Bafana coach looked calm and measured when he addressed the media this week, insisting he’s known all along what he was signing up for. “As young as I was 28 years ago, becoming a coach, I did not know that this is a real career and you have to look after yourself, after your players, after the ambitions and the interests of the club,” said Ntseki, adding: “I think we come from an environment where club coaches were coaches before and club coaches being coaches, they’ll always demand. They’ll always tell you what needs to happen but at a professional level it’s a bit different and it comes with the territory.”

He continued: “The pressure comes from yesterday not necessarily today because of the history of the club, the background of the club. When you take this position, even when I was appointed as Bafana Bafana coach, I was fully aware of the pressure that comes with that position.”

Kaizer Chiefs has won this competition that was last played prior to the Covid outbreak in 2019 a record 13 times, after reaching 17 finals since it started. The Glamour Boys are the only Club to have won the cup under every sponsor from the Datsun Cup in 1983, followed by the JPS knockout, Coca-Cola Cup, Rothmans Cup, and Telkom knockout.