The recently concluded national athletic championships helped Kaizer Chiefs star Dillan Solomons forget a bit about Amakhosi’s on-field struggles.
Last weekend, the 27-year-old defender took some of his free time to follow the SA Senior Track and Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg, where his idol, Wayde van Niekerk, competed.
This was the same weekend when Chiefs succumbed to their 10th league defeat of the season with a 1-0 loss at Richards Bay last Sunday.
A former sprinter and the horizontal jumps specialist in his youth, Solomons swapped his running spikes for soccer boots shortly after he represented Western Province at the 2016 SA Under-23 Track and Field Championships.
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Speaking to City Press during the Chiefs media event on Thursday, in the build-up to Chiefs’ DStv Premiership clash against SuperSport United on Saturday, Solomons said: