‘RED BULL!’

EZULWINI – It is all issues of interference in elite football in the country – a plague that the three-day Coaches Symposium touched on yesterday.

The Symposium is held at the Swaziland Water Services Corporation (SWSC). It started on Friday and will end this afternoon. As part of yesterday’s session, Eswatini Football Coaches Association (EFCA) Secretary Musa Mamba, who is also an Instructor under the EFA and Technical Director Bhekisisa ‘Bizzah’ Mkhonta introduced them to the topic of ‘Effective Coaching’.

It is under this topic that he put it without fear or favour that local football coaches had a big challenge with their employers.
“About 70 per cent of you do not own your team line-ups because the team bosses have taken over. They are such a challenge for us.

This is a fact and we all know it. Victor Gamedze trained, paid, substituted and got results but the other team bosses don’t train the teams, we do and we are held accountable for results,” he said with the well attending elite, First Division, Regional, Development and Women Football coaches loudly approving as it was no secret that the late Mbabane Swallows and Premier League of Eswatini (PLE) would personally handle his team’s physical fitness.

own the dressing room

Mamba told the coaches that they must own the dressing room to show effectiveness and be a mirror of what they want their teams to be.
“Because as a coach, to be effective, you also need to be a good listener and involve others around you, share your tentative line-ups with the bosses say on Thursday, discuss it and in the end own it as a coach who knows his players very well,” he advised.

Mamba also told the coaches that they were expected to be dressed smart and look organised as a technical team, be clean, be teachers to the players and lead by example, know their team like their back of their hands, mind their language, seek players’ involvement at training, before and after game, motivate them, not blame anyone, not hold post-match meetings with team bosses about results and own results regardless of whether it is a lose or win.

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