{"id":918178,"date":"2022-01-21T01:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/21\/good-news-for-chiefs-as-top-player-joins-them-in-training\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T01:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:39:55","slug":"good-news-for-chiefs-as-top-player-joins-them-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/good-news-for-chiefs-as-top-player-joins-them-in-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News For Chiefs As Top Player Joins Them In Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><strong>Everyone who follows football loves waking up to good news regarding their team news and Kaizer Chiefs will be smiling after the learning that one of their most loved players will be joining the rest of of squad this week.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c439109d95704784912a1575f8018d25\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Their number one and trusted goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune has been missing in action for close to five months and surely he has been missed by those who love sitting in the stands behind him calling out his name to make those stunning saves to deny opponents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/d73593c0845946db9a0b6bb371ac8151\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Khune last featured for Chiefs when Amakhosi playerd Mamelodi Sundowns on 15 August and now will be a feature in the upcoming DStv Compact cup that is set to take place later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Itu&#8221; as he is as he is affectionately known has been battling with injuries, probably downs to his age as he is no doubt one of the veterans in the PSL as a whole. This made Chiefs sign Nigerian goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi as back up to him back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/952c5310c99d4138a1681711d881b4ea\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Besides having to complete for a starting place with Akpeyi, there is also Bruce Bvuma and Brandon Peterson who are also in contention of the number one spot at Chiefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20c52022f8884dfe99895d5b867e0ca9\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, since Khune has been injured, he has not need relaxing as he has been very busy getting back to fitness, with the help of his wife on his journey back to full fitness and the DStv compact cup will be the perfect opportunity for him to show that be still got it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/69c808fa2b9f400d9ee7bba89dcc03e7\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for taking your time to read this article and please feel free to leave a comment, don&#8217;t be scared to comment because the KASISOURCE is here to engage with the people in the Opera Kasi. Also press the FOLLOW button so you can always know what the KASISOURCE has for you everyday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.kickoff.com\/news\/articles\/south-africa-news\/categories\/news\/premiership\/itumeleng-khune-makes-welcome-return-to-kaizer-chiefs-action\/711659<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: TheKasiSource (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBrandon Peterson<br \/>\nBruce Bvuma<br \/>\nChiefs<br \/>\nDaniel Akpeyi<br \/>\nItumeleng Khune<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who follows football loves waking up to good news regarding their team news and Kaizer Chiefs will be smiling after the learning that one of their most loved players will be joining the rest of of squad this week.\u00a0 Their number one and trusted goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune has been missing in action for close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}