'Everyone at home supports Amakhosi,' he told Chiefs media. Everyone at home supports Amakhosi, so I thought it would be a good move for me to join the team I grew up supporting and being here feels like my dream has really come true.” ‘I am overjoyed’“I come from Durban and I began playing for a local township football club in Pinetown,” he added. The MTN8 quarterfinal on Sunday marks Chiefs’ first appearance in the competition in three years. Apart from Phili, Chiefs have snapped up former Stellenbosch defender Thabo Moloisane, Tanzanian midfielder Adolf Bitegeko and former Sekhukhune goalkeeper Renaldo Leaner.