Pitso Mosimane sends message to agent

Where’s Pitso Mosimane going next? Nobody knows yet, but he has given his agent an important note.

PITSO MOSIMANE WANTS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

The former Bafana Bafana coach is currently in Saudi Arabia trying to save Abha Club from relegation. Whether he succeeds or not, his contract with the club expires at the season’s end in May. His agent and wife, Moira Tlhagale, has given the latest update on Pitso Mosimane’s future.

According to Tlhagale, the coach is open to various options but has communicated one priority. The former Mamelodi Sundowns and Al Ahly coach is particularly keen to coach a national team.

“Local, local, local… no, local,” Tlhagale told iDiski Times.

“I will tell you definitely, the next move the coach would like to do or the coach and the whole technical team would like to do is a national team.

“So we are looking for those options for them, that’s the mandate they have given me. But obviously, if there is a project, even local, that comes, we’ll consider it.

Tlhagale also took the moment to reveal that Pitso Mosimane declined to stay longer than four moths with Abha, but a new decision will be taken by June.

“They wanted an 18-month contract but for us, just my side in the negotiations, we were not happy with the next year’s amount,” Tlhagale added.

“Understanding the market, we agreed that we’ll help them for the next four months and if there’s interest, the coach would keep them in the Saudi Pro League, and we agreed on the negotiations of the second part, then yes… if we don’t agree he moves on to other opportunities.

“Even now, we know in Abha they only have four months, I’ve already started talking to other teams, which I cannot tell you now, to just start building opportunities if Abha doesn’t work out,” the agent concluded about Pitso Mosimane’s next prospects.

Where would you like to see the coach known as “Jingles” next season? Let us know in the comments section below.

MAMELODI PROJECT

Meanwhile, the Pitso Mosimane Football Club has arrived to start development in Mamelodi, Tshwane.

In case you don’t remember, the iconic coach launched the Pitso Mosimane Soccer Schools initiative in 2023. Many of the participating schools are Curro schools and in higher-income areas outside the townships.

The new Pitso Mosimane Football Club has broken into the township space. The first project was launched in Mamelodi this week.

3 000 kids attended trials for boys and girls u7 to u15. The Pitso Mosimane Football Club also invested money to refurbish a field in the Mamelodi area.

“The reason we are supporting the Pitso Mosimane Foundation is that now we are rekindling the meaning of this facility, and that’s why we are here, and it’s a thumbs up to Pitso Mosimane,” said Councilor Diamond Mashau of Ward 23 in Mamelodi via SABC.

“The reason we are supporting the Pitso Mosimane Foundation is that now we are rekindling the meaning of this facility, and that’s why we are here and it’s a thumbs up to Pitso Mosimane,” he added.

“You must remember, this is self-funding from the Pitso Mosimane Foundation of this particular process, and they just came here in Mamelodi Ward 23 and said, ‘We are prepared to invest in this particular area.’

“So we said, ‘No, you are welcome.’ Because, if you check, we have many facilities within our community that are just depleting on a daily basis, they don’t have meaning anymore and are just facilities because there are structures there.

“But for Pitso Mosimane Foundation to come and say, ‘We are going to invest, and if the city will come and join us while we are busy, it will be a blessing.’

“That’s why we have welcomed them with both hands, and the community is happy about this particular process,” he concluded.