THE King’s College and Preparatory School started the year with a new executive of sports, who is also a former Bafana Bafana player.
Ricardo Katza represented South Africa from 2005 to 2010 in which he captained the side for eight matches during his tenure in the national team.
The former footballer said he was contacted by a member of the Board of Governors at The King’s College in August last year. “I last spoke to him in 2017. When he mentioned that the head of sports left the post, I was the first one who came to his mind. [It also] offered me and my family a three-in-one situation (school, sports and church) on one campus,” he said.
Katza said there are a number of goals he hopes to achieve at the school in his new position. He mentioned there have been challenges, but change is taking place on a solid foundation.
“We have decided to work on three things this year. [We want to] work with children as people and not just as athletes who do sport at the school. We want to improve and raise the standards of the nine sporting codes, to get the learners to compete and not just participate. With our coaching staff, we want to have staff with qualifications per sporting code and heading the nine different sports.”
Looking to the future, Katza is looking to obtain his Union of European Football Associations A and B football coaching licence next year in Ireland.
- – Fourways Review
