Menzi Magubane
Most Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs seem to be unfamiliar with the expression “Rome wasn’t built in a day”.
This season seven coaches have been sacked because club management lacked patience and trust.
This shows that the clubs don’t understand that defeat is part of the game. What has been most shocking is that even the big South African clubs like Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates are doing it.
They should know better, especially as they have been dominating SA football for some time and they should be leading by example. But now that things are not going their way at the moment they have acted like amateurs.
Pirates fired Josef Zinnbauer at the beginning of the season. The German lasted less than two years and he even gave them silverware in 2020, something that the Bucs last had in 2014.
Chiefs followed by sacking Stuart Baxter last month after hiring him before the start of the season. Baxter is the last coach to have won trophies with the Amakhosi and that was in 2015.
It seems Mamelodi Sundowns will continue to dominate SA football for many years to come and it’s no more than the Soweto giants deserve, especially with the way Downs has been trusting its technical team after the departure of Pitso Mosimane to Al Ahly two years ago.
The new club chairman Tlhopie Motsepe and his administrative board have been showing how much they trust their co-coaches Manqoba Mngqithi, Rulani Mokwena and Steve Komphela. The trio won the double last season and in the current season they are likely to win the treble.
All thanks to the club management that has been supportive by giving them all the players they want to continue to dominate.
Sundowns has been dominating SA football since Patrice Motsepe took ownership from Natasha and Angelo Tsichlas in 2004.
Not only are they a force to be reckoned with in South Africa but they are also a major team in football on the continent. They won their first ever CAF Champions League trophy in 2016 with the Mosimane, Mngqithi and Mokwena leadership.
Maybe it is time for other clubs to take note and learn a lesson from Sundowns about doing things better.
