Pitso Mosimane will be bringing former Orlando Pirates coach Maahier Davids with him to his next club. Source: Twitter.
Pitso ropes in former Pirates coach as an assistant
Maahier Davids, who previously worked at Pirates, will become a new assistant coach to Pitso Mosimane at Al Ahli FC.
Pitso Mosimane will be bringing former Orlando Pirates coach Maahier Davids with him to his next club. Source: Twitter.
Pitso Mosimane has already settled in with Al-Ahli Saudi FC on a two-year deal, which is his first full-time coaching gig since leaving Egyptian powerhouse Al Ahly.
A few weeks ago, Mosimane and his technical staff of Kabelo ‘KB’ Rangoagac, Musi Matlaba and Kyle Solomon made the move to Asia from the Gulf.
Interestingly, it has now been confirmed that Maahier Davids – who has previously had coaching stints at the likes of Maritzburg United, Pirates and Ethiopia’s Saint George SC – will be completing the ‘dream team’ with Mosimane.
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Just recently, Mosimane challenged other South African coaches to improve their work ethic in the search for coaching roles.
“Sometimes I speak to somebody and I say, ‘I’ve been in a country and I know the President of the Federation, do you want to go?’ and they ask ‘how much do they pay? I can’t go and leave my family for that’,” Mosimane said, as quoted by SoccerLaduma.
“I’m leaving my family, I leave my children, my boy is now growing up. Somewhere, somehow, that is the mentality. We also want soft life as coaches. You can’t tell you don’t have a job but you are not coaching, and we need coaches.”
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Mosimane has previously admitted that taking the Saudi offer with a second-division team was a bit of a risk, but that he was excited to continue trying to “break barriers” and get out of his “comfort zone”.
Interestingly, Mosimane has revealed why it would be virtually impossible to bring any South African players with him to Al-Ahli Saudi FC due to the market value the clubs price on certain players, which sometimes surpassed R30 million.
“If there is an opportunity in the next window… and maybe in the future… we can always look around and see what we can bring. It’s always good to bring South African players into those spaces but it’s very difficult to bring South African players to the Middle East. It’s not an easy thing. They need to adapt, their social life will be different
“The South African market is not an easy one. The teams expect a lot of money. That’s the challenge. The transfers are big here, people expect R30 million, R40 million and players don’t move. Clubs (in South Africa) ask for money they deserve and you can’t argue with that.”
Mosimane also revealed that he would be willing to one day take up a job in South Africa, but only if the “project” was one with ambition and vision.
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After fending off numerous other offers that were presented to him, Mosimane’s agency MT Sports has provided a lengthy statement explaining why this was seen as the best project, describing him as a ‘turnaround strategist’.
You can read the full statement about Pitso Mosimane’s appointment from MT Sports below:
