Mamelodi Sundowns CAF champion league
Congratulations to Mamelodi Sundowns for winning the Afcon Champions League.
But I must hasten to say this is not the best Sundowns team by any stretch of the imagination.
In fact I am tempted to say this is the worst Sundowns team I have ever seen, but of course diehard Masandwana supporters would quickly retort that this present core of players has won the Afcon Champions League.
True, but what playing philosophy is being used by the coach at Sundowns at the moment?
None at all ll my dear readers.
The coach plays just to win or draw at all costs and I am saying this Afcon Champions League victory is a fluke because this AS FAR team that Sundowns defeated last nightb is useless and its owner must sell it off because he has no team there whatsoever.
The problem with coaches who just do their job for the sake of winning and not building a team in terms of playing philosophy is that once the said coach leaves the team, the said team’s performance will decline as there would be no foundation/ philosophy whatsoever for the incoming coach to build on.
Kaizer Chiefs used to win many trophies in the 1980s and early 1990s but the coaches who were in charge of the team ( Kaizer Chiefs)at the didn’t establish any playing philosophy whatsoever.
The said coaches were given the mandate to win at all costs without any consideration being given to the development of the team and its playing style.
That is why Chiefs has now turned into minnows because previous coaches there “didn’t leave anything behind.”
Chiefs used to play entertaining football in the 1970s but after losing to Wits University in the 1978 Mainstay Cup final with owner Kaizer Motaung himself as the coach, the team abandoned the culture of playing good football and started playing with the purpose of winning or drawing at all costs.
Under the late Screamer Tshabalala, Sundowns played ” shoeshine and piano” and under Ted Dumitru Sundowns played football based on research conducted by Professor Ted Dumitru himself regarding the agility and fitness of black players.
Gordon Igesund was fired at Pirates in 2001 as a coach even though he had won the League title
This as he was not playing good football but was engrossed in “skop, skiet en donner” tactics with the aim of winning the League.
Now if Sundowns continues with this present coach, they will get ” worse than worse” the day he leaves the team and will be like Kaizer Chiefs which has now turned into run-of-the-mill minnows scrapping for points here and there and thanking their lucky stars for at least getting a draw in any given match.
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