{"id":58206,"date":"2024-09-30T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=58206"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:40:12","slug":"kaizer-chiefs-are-champ-of-champs-winners-after-stunning-stellenbosch-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=58206","title":{"rendered":"Kaizer Chiefs are Champ of Champs winners after stunning Stellenbosch FC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaizer Chiefs FC celebrates first place after the 2024 Engen Champ of Champs Day 3 at Wits Marks Park in Johannesburg on 29 September 2024. Photo: Nokwanda Zondi\/BackpagePix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kaizer Chiefs<\/strong> captured the 2024 Engen Champ of Champs, their second trophy of the season, when they beat Stellenbosch FC<\/strong> 1-0 at Marks Park on Sunday, courtesy of a stunning goal from Neo Bohloko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Who would’ve seen this successful run unfolding for the mighty Soweto giants a year or two ago?<\/p>\n

Perhaps only coach David Mathebula<\/strong> would have had the vision for it in his mind but certainly, even with a coach of his ambition, he would have had moments of doubt as his team was far away from being as clinical as they are now on the pitch.<\/p>\n

Locally, Chiefs were nowhere near being the best club in Gauteng as Highlands Park<\/strong> and Mamelodi Sundowns<\/strong> brutally asserted their dominance in the under-19 division in the province.<\/p>\n

However, Mathebula, in an exclusive interview with SuperSport Schools Plus<\/strong> 11 months ago, whispered, “We want to dominate”.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A year later, Mathebula has successfully added two trophies to the Amakhosi’s cabinet, the Gauteng leg of the Engen Knockout Challenge<\/a><\/strong> and the national Engen Champ of Champs this past weekend.<\/p>\n

On their way to the final at Marks Park, Chiefs faced stiff competition and got past all of their opposition relatively unscathed.<\/p>\n

In the group stages, they registered victories over Virginia Sports Academy<\/strong> and Shayamoya FC<\/strong>, while they settled for draws against eBhayi FC<\/strong> and Tlhotlhokwe<\/strong> FC<\/strong> to top Group 1 and qualify for a semi-final showdown with Galeshewe FC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies celebrates victory after the 2024 Engen Champ of Champs Day 3 at Wits Marks Park in Johannesburg on 29 September 2024. Photo: Nokwanda Zondi\/BackpagePix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mathebula’s team dealt comfortably with Galeshewe FC, scoring a dominant 2-0 victory, to book their spot in the final and eventually win the tournament.<\/p>\n

While Stellenbosch heads back to the Western Cape as the runner-up, the Port Elizabeth-based eBhayi FC took third place after beating Galeshewe FC 5-3 in a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n

Chiefs’ dominance in the tournament was further highlighted with Bohloko walking away with the Top Goal Scorer Award<\/strong>. At the same time, another brilliant youngster, Tashiel Rugunanan<\/strong>, secured the Defender of the Tournament Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the Ladies division, Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies<\/strong> walked away with the trophy after beating Durban Ladies<\/strong> 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kaizer Chiefs captured the 2024 Engen Champ of Champs, their second trophy of the season, when they beat Stellenbosch FC 1-0 at Marks Park on Sunday, courtesy of a stunning goal from Neo Bohloko. Who would’ve seen this successful run unfolding for the mighty Soweto giants a year or two ago? Perhaps only coach David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":58208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}