{"id":1448,"date":"2021-07-01T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:50:19","slug":"new-deal-on-the-cards-for-katsande-at-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"New Deal On The Cards For Katsande At Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kaizer Chiefs hardman Willard Katsande will reportedly be offered a new contract after impressing the new technical team at Amakhosi. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 35-year-old has started in only ten matches in the DSTV premiership the last campaign, but has been impressive when Chiefs wanted him the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katsande who was out of favour under Gavin Hunt, prove that he remains an important figure in the team playing a pivotal role in Chief&#8217;s last few games as they managed to conjour a top eight finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to South Africa&#8217;s top football news magazine <strong>Kick-off<\/strong>, the Zimbabwean hardman will remain at Amakhosi for another year alongside fellow senior players Itumeleng Khune and Bernard Parker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Amakhosi have decided to keep the three most experienced players at the club for at least another year, to create a \u2018proper transition instead of pushing them out while the train is moving\u2019, especially now ahead of the massive continental final,&#8221; read the report <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Amakhosi technical team has been impressed by his solid displays in the midfield since Hunt&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new head coach, Stuart Baxter is a big fan of Katsande, whom he helped turn into a formidable midfielder during his first stint at the club winning two premiership titles in 2014 and 2016 respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has since become the club&#8217;s foreign player with most appearances after equalling Tinashe Nengomasha\u2019s 325 games in their nil all draw against Wydad Athletic in the 2nd leg of the CAF Champions League semi-final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs will therefore offer him a new one year extension to create a smooth exit for the legend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katsande \u2019s current contract expired on the 30th of June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chiefs will report back to training on July 4 for what will be a mix of the start of pre-season training, in between preparing for their historical CAF Champions League final against Al Ahly at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca set for July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaizer Chiefs hardman Willard Katsande will reportedly be offered a new contract after impressing the new technical team at Amakhosi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,13,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210701_185119.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}