Kaizer Chiefs suffered their heavy defeat to SuperSport United minus the technical expertise of Cedric Kaze.
Kaze has been working as the second assistant to Nasreddine Nabi, providing a key role in several technical aspects, which include the link with the club's analysis team.
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The plus is that he is multilingual and conversant in English, French, Spanish, German, and Swahili.
Since Kaze started sitting on the bench against Richards Bay FC in November, Chiefs had not conceded more than twice in a single match.
However, upon the Burundian's absence on Tuesday, the Soweto giants looked vulnerable conceding four on a night it could have been even worse.
The reason for Kaze's absence has been classified as being health-related having not been at training this week.
He is also not expected back for the rest of this week after being admitted for medical attention on Sunday.
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Kaze came in after the departure of Fernando da Cruz and now works with Khalil Ben Youssef as one of two assistants to Nabi.
Nabi had Kaze next to him as assistant coach-cum-technical director during the success they enjoyed at Young Africans in Tanzania.