Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Willard Katsande urges teammate Itumeleng Khune to continue showing the hunger and desire to succeed at the club.

The 30-year-old shot-stopper was recently awarded the Absa Premiership Player of the Month for the month of August and September after claiming three consecutive man-of-the-match awards during that period.

Katsande has called on Khune to maintain the consistency he has displayed over the past few months at domestic and national level.

“He [Khune] is our leader, so obviously he’s leading the team in a good way. He just needs to continue leading like that and keep on winning,” Katsande told KickOff.com.

“Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have won everything, but they’re still hungry every day. So I don’t say now that he has won everything domestically he is now to lose the hunger.

“You need to win everything to be remembered as the best. This is the time for him to keep consistent so that when you look back you can say, ‘My career was successful, I’ve won a,b,c,d and each and every season I had objectives and achieved all the goals’.

“So for me, it’ll be unfair to say he’s won everything, we’re going to be injecting negative thoughts in his body.

“If he has to win 30 man of the matches like he has been doing, he must do that. That is the hunger we need.”

Kaizer Chiefs will take on Mamelodi Sundowns in a mouthwatering Absa Premiership clash at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Tuesday, with kick-off set for 19:30.

-This story originally appeared on SportsClub.co.za