Steve Komphela breaks silence: Sundowns first team coach says spotlight no show is intentional

Mamelodi Sundowns' first team coach, Steve Komphela, said the reasoning behind him being away from the media spotlight was part of the deliberate processes they are following at the club.

The well-travelled coach, who had an infamous spell as Kaizer Chiefs' head coach between 2015 and 2018, has had a functionally quiet spell as one of three senior coaches at Sundowns alongside Rhulani Mokwena and Manqoba Mngqithi.

Christened as 'Meshack, Shadrach, and Abednego', 'the three wise men', or the 'three musketeers', the coaching trio went about their trophy-winning business with Sundowns.

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Komphela, one of the more eloquent individuals in South African football, has pleaded the fifth from a media perspective, but at Monday's Nedbank Cup quarterfinal draw in Randburg, he finally explained why he chose to be part of Sundowns' highly efficient woodwork.

"There has to be clarity, order and maturity in an environment where people are deliberate and intentional about the process," Komphela said.

"The process is clear enough to have a clear definition. It hasn't had any glitches because everybody at Sundowns sacrifices themselves.

"The institutional success at Sundowns is there, whether you look at the previous coach, and the president, and the board are hellbent on seeing things work for Sundowns."

After losing 3-0 to Orlando Pirates in the second leg of the MTN8 semi-finals in Polokwane in October, a coaching shake-up saw Mokwena moving into the head coaching position with a sole mandate.

Komphela was then moved into the first-team coach position, while Mngqithi dropped down into the senior coaching berth held by Komphela.

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