Chiefs got here away with an vital win over Stellenbosch on Sunday, however they suffered an enormous harm blow after Itumeleng Khune needed to be substituted within the first half.
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After struggling the ‘non-contact’ harm, Khune was changed by Brandon Petersen, and the veteran will now bear additional medical assessments.
“I thought maybe he had snapped his groin, but when I had a chat with him, and even our physio told me it’s not bad, coach Arthur Zwane commented, as quoted by KickOff.com.
“We don’t know whether he will be out for the next game in terms of availability, or for the Cup game in Durban. So, we will see, we will monitor him.”
With Khune beforehand battling to reclaim his No.1 spot within the Chiefs workforce in latest occasions, there was discuss from some pundits through the low season that he ought to maybe take a look at shifting to a different membership to have the ability to begin enjoying repeatedly.
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However, the 35-year-old has at all times emphatically said that he’s comfortable on the membership and received’t be trying to depart, whereas he has not too long ago rediscovered some notable kind and begun to work his means again into the workforce as a first-team common.
Besides some harm troubles, Khune has additionally battled with his conditioning over latest seasons, and he has now revealed what he struggled with as he sought to get again to high-level match health. Without pointing blame at former goalkeeper coach Lee Baxter, Khune did indicate that issues have been much better now when it got here to protecting observe of weight ranges.
“I come to work, I do my job, I go back home and I spend time with my family,” the veteran keeper informed iDiski Times. “Like I said earlier, the critical information that was meant to be shared with me, of my results, was kept away, I don’t know the reasons. But if only I had known that I have gained weight, I have gained body fat, I would have surely done something about it, but I don’t know why it was kept away.
“And you can see that after the club released him everything changed because now everything is visible. We are being told everything, every six weeks we are testing, we are doing our weights, we are doing our skin folds.
“There are certain targets for us to meet in order for us to be able to play for Kaizer Chiefs. So, I’m happy that I was able to meet those targets because my body fat percentage at some point was 16, and before the start of the first game of the season it dropped to 12.
“I told my wife that we need to get it down to eight, so that if it does go up at some point it will be just below 10. So, you must always set yourself higher goals instead of when someone says, give me this, then you limit yourself.”
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Khune has no intention to retire any time quickly
Earlier this 12 months, Khune defined why he was not keen to contemplate leaving the membership even throughout a interval of restricted game-time.
“I will never entertain that I should leave the club. I will never go anywhere. I’m a ‘Khosi for Life’,” the 35-year-old beforehand mentioned on the DStv Premiership’s 2022-23 preseason launch.
“I’ve been given an opportunity from the development to the senior side. I’ve been given the responsibility of captaining the biggest club on the continent, so I wouldn’t be entertaining ideas that I would like to leave the club in the future.”
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