Ex coach: S. Africa celebrated failure
Source: Agencies |
July 10, 2010, Saturday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
SOUTH Africa's former coach Jomo Sono accused the national team of celebrating a World Cup failure.
He said the host's first round elimination was nothing to shout about, despite a draw with Mexico and win over France, and that Bafana Bafana would have been better off with a local coach rather than Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira.
"We've started celebrating failure in this country and it is a failure," said Sono who led the nation to the African Nations Cup final as caretaker coach in 1998 and was in charge of the 2002 World Cup side that also went out in the first round.
"At least we can celebrate that we won a game at home because it would have been a shambles if we hadn't," he told reporters yesterday.
Sono said Parreira's track record, including a 1994 World Cup win with his own country, did not mean he was the right man for South Africa.
"There is no foreign coach who has won the World Cup," he said.
"All the coaches who have won the World Cup have done it with their own country. It's the culture -- they understand their own culture, they live there, they understand the players, they understand the mentality of the players.
"People think that coaching Nigeria is easy, but it's not because you are dealing with tribes there so you have to understand the mentality of different tribes.
"South Africa is the same, you are dealing with coloreds and black players, the mentality is not the same. They don't think the same. A local coach will understand this.
"Tactics is maybe 30 percent; 40 percent is man-management."
He said the host's first round elimination was nothing to shout about, despite a draw with Mexico and win over France, and that Bafana Bafana would have been better off with a local coach rather than Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira.
"We've started celebrating failure in this country and it is a failure," said Sono who led the nation to the African Nations Cup final as caretaker coach in 1998 and was in charge of the 2002 World Cup side that also went out in the first round.
"At least we can celebrate that we won a game at home because it would have been a shambles if we hadn't," he told reporters yesterday.
Sono said Parreira's track record, including a 1994 World Cup win with his own country, did not mean he was the right man for South Africa.
"There is no foreign coach who has won the World Cup," he said.
"All the coaches who have won the World Cup have done it with their own country. It's the culture -- they understand their own culture, they live there, they understand the players, they understand the mentality of the players.
"People think that coaching Nigeria is easy, but it's not because you are dealing with tribes there so you have to understand the mentality of different tribes.
"South Africa is the same, you are dealing with coloreds and black players, the mentality is not the same. They don't think the same. A local coach will understand this.
"Tactics is maybe 30 percent; 40 percent is man-management."
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
