Ex-Pirates star: I told myself I’d NOT go back to Kaizer Chiefs!

A former Orlando Pirates midfielder has revealed how he vowed NOT to go back to Kaizer Chiefs because of how they ‘unfairly treated’ him.

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Mpho Makola spent four years with Chiefs as a teenager before later moving to Free State Stars where he became a household name.

Pirates then signed Makola from Free State Stars in 2013, and he would spend six years in Mayfair before joining Cape Town City in 2019.

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But the reason Makola left Chiefs in the first place was that they didn’t promote him to the first team yet they wanted to offer him a development contract.

Had he signed it, Makola feels he would have been binded to it and that would have denied him an opportunity to play professional football.

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HOW MAKOLA SNUBBED KAIZER CHIEFS AND ENDED UP AT PIRATES

“I knew that contract (at Chiefs) would bind me, and I’d be stuck in the development team. I wanted to play senior team football,” Makola told FARPost.

“At Ajax, I scored in a friendly game, and they wanted to sign me, but Chiefs demanded compensation. Ajax refused to pay, and I went back home and told myself I’d not go back to Chiefs.”

“I was on the verge of giving up. My mom suggested that I go back to school. But I looked at my medal cabinet. I was an amateur player, but I kept collecting medals everywhere I played,” added Makola.

Makola, 36, is currently on the books of Cape Town Cit; the team he joined at the start of the 2019-20 season following the expiry of his contract with Pirates.

He is a veteran of 340 professional games under his belt since making his PSL debut in the 2008-09 season with 31 goals to his name.

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