Menzi Magubane
Former Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has suggested that his African counterparts value him more than those in South Africa.
He said he has been asked constantly why he is not the one coaching the struggling Bafana Bafana.
Mosimane said Senegal national team mentor and current African coach of the year Aliou Cissé has asked him the very same question.
“Aliou Cissé asked me, ‘why don’t you coach South Africa?’ They look at my country as they see it. They look up to South Africa as we are top in the continent and all that,” Mosimane said on Radio 702.
He explained that when he was sacked as Bafana manager, he was told by those at the South African Football Association (Safa) that they know more than him.
“They would say if I’m leading the continent as one of the top coaches in the continent and South Africa is not doing well, then who is coaching them? I then said it’s a different situation.”
Mosimane is by far the top achiever in South Africa. He is the first ever African manager to win the CAF Champions League title three times.
He is the only man in the country to win the Champions League with two different teams. He first won it in 2016 with Mamelodi Sundowns and in 2020 and 2021 with Al Ahly.
South African Mike Makaab won the title while at Orlando Pirates in 1995 when he was still a coach.
Mosimane, however, feels he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves in South Africa.
“To be honest with you, I feel more appreciated outside than inside my country. This is what I would tell them,” added Mosimane.
Meanwhile Mosimane has also confirmed that he has two new job offers after being jobless for three months, following his resignation at the Egyptian giants.
“I’m feeling better now and I’ve been asking the office when they think I should go back?”
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