Former Bafana Bafanagoalkeeper Itumeleng Khune says Kaizer Chiefs keeper Bruce Bvumafailed to take his advice.
The 37-year-old added that Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana captain Ronwen Williams was the one who took his advice, hence he has improved.
Itumeleng Khune, the former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, stated that Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Bruce Bvuma did not heed his advice. The 37-year-old acknowledged that Mamelodi Sundowns and Bafana captain Ronwen Williams took his advice, which contributed to his improvement.
“I was grooming Ronwen,” Khune told iDiski Times.
“When he came to Bafana, I told him we are not here to make friends. We are here to compete. You make me better, I make you better, we make the national team better. So, he took those words, and I fail to understand why Bruce Bvuma didn’t listen to that advice.
“Because now, the way he’s struggling, he should have taken my advice when I gave it to him. He could be number one still, he could be one of the best candidates in the team and the national team. But now he’s also inconsistent because he thought I play with Itu in the same team so I can’t take his advice, but someone who came from outside appreciated my words. Now he has taken football by storm. He’s been to the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards, and I communicate with him almost every day.
Bruce Bvuma has replaced Itumeleng Khune as Chiefs’ no.1
“He is the boy who listened at a very young age. Me and Ronwen, we spent more than 10 years together at Bafana. He knew when he was coming to camp, Itu is number one. He kept telling me I want to be number one, one day and I was like ‘If you want that, we are not here to be friends, you must work hard for it. Perform at your club, come to the national team, perform at training, maybe the coach will give it to you’.
“But at my prime, I was always up there, and I was like, no one is going to come in to take my number one.”
Itumeleng Khune worked with Bvuma at club level and competed with Williams at national level.
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