Can the next Bafana coach keep his head?
Predecessors have lasted about eight months before losing the plot and transforming into paranoid beings, writes Marc Strydom
Looking ahead at 2017‚ we’ve jotted down five things we desperately don’t want to see this year in SA soccer: 1. Another Bafana Bafana coach losing the plot Something about that job just seems to turn coaches into a seething ball of rabid‚ frothing-at-the-mouth madness. The examples are plentiful – Gordon Igesund‚ Pitso Mosimane and most recently and glaringly Shakes Mashaba. They all start well on the field and a ball of warm‚ fuzzy charm off it. There is often an eight-month timeline for this honeymoon period. A few tough results‚ a hint of criticism‚ even from the fringe‚ charlatan press‚ and they transform into paranoid beings like werewolves from the moonlight‚ sprinting off into the bushveld to hunt rabbits and scratching for fleas with their hind legs. Safa are due to appoint their new Bafana coach in the next few weeks. Hopefully the new incumbent will learn one big‚ important‚ exclamation-mark lesson from the track record of his predecessors – don’t speak rubbish. 2. Charla...
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