We all had a feeling Pitso Mosimane was coming back home next season, but Al Wahda moved fast. Is “Jingles” actually still interested in hearing the sounds of vuvuzelas and hearing Phumlani Msibi say “thougths please”?
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IS PITSO MOSIMANE EAGER TO RETURN TO THE DSTV PREMIERSHIP?
While millions of Amakhosi supporters were anticipating a dream announcement, the United Arab Emirates giants Al Wahda secured Pitso Mosimane’s signature last week.
Is the former SuperSport United and Mamelodi Sundowns tactician interested in a return to Mzansi?
“But why not, you never say never [coaching in South Africa], this is a business,” Mosimane told SNAWA, as quoted by FARPost.
“If you Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns or Kaizer Chiefs you have a brand that you’ve built. You want Pep Guardiola you have to match the level of that he has his own team.
“I coach a project, I like a project. Home is where we get sharpened as coaches,” Pitso Mosimane concluded.
DEVELOPMENT WORK
In other news, the Kagiso-born legend has launched his development project.
As reported via social media last week, the Pitso Mosimane Soccer Schools, in partnership with Curro, was officially launched in Mzansi.
“We get the coaches from SAFA, from the CAF D license course, SAFA develop those coaches, but when they come to us they go into my other programme of now specialising in the PMSS philosophy,” he said during the launch.
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“So we’re aligned with SAFA. This is not something that is on the other side, we’re enhancing the programme,” Mosimane added.
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During a subsequent interview with Mahlatse Mphahele, Pitso Mosimane said it is time to move on from buts and excuses.
WHAT WAS SAID: “Having players as a coach and saying this player is very good but had he had this or that he could have been better and sometimes you want to take a little bit from different players and want to put it one player,” Mosimane said as quoted Prime Sports with Mahlatse.
“We need a fully developed product that can represent us internationally for a very long time. For example, Pienaar, McCarthy, Shaun Bartlett, they have done well. We used to have players everywhere across Europe. We had a player at Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Ajax Amsterdam, Tottenham Hotspur, Borussia Dortmund and other teams, but what happened?
“It is my challenge to see what we can do better to have a player who qualifies to that level. We research and see where they lack. It is all about a developmental program. We don’t develop them the proper way.
“Look at the School of Excellence, it has produced a lot of Bafana Bafana players. If we follow the same path, we are bound to get to the right thing but how do we make it better?
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“How do they develop players in Europe? What is it that they are doing? I then realized that there is age-appropriate training, there is attention to the size of the ball, the size of the pitch, the amount of time you focus on because you can’t put everything on an 8-year-old. The parents don’t know much and they will think that as a coach, you know better but are actually doing it wrong,” Pitso Mosimane concluded.
