Former Maritzburg United assistant Maahier Davids has jetted out of the country to visit Ajax Amsterdam after receiving a special invitation from the Dutch club.
Ernst Middendorp, who worked with Davids at Maritzburg and at Saint George in Ethiopia, said he told Davids to go and further himself rather than sitting idle in South Africa.
Middendorp also informed Davids‘ old brother, Fadlu, to take the job abroad at Lokomotiv Moscow. Fadlu joined the Russian giants a few weeks ago as Josef Zinnbauer’s assistant coach, but he was relieved of his duties on Monday after the latter was shown the door on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Maahier left the country on Tuesday, going to Holland, where he finds a system that is an open book to him because he previously worked at Ajax Cape Town, who adopted Ajax Amsterdam’s methodology, before the two clubs split last year after more than 20 years in unison.
“Too many coaches are sitting at home and are not flexible or whatever,” Middendorp told iDiski Times.
“With Fadlu, I spoke about it and I said, ‘Fadlu, take it, you have to go and that is the next step for you to see the real professionalism and do it’, don’t hesitate’.
“Maahier is going to Amsterdam today to be involved in the project worldwide. Just go, just do it and don’t wait and sit around.”
Another Mzansi coach who left the SA shores recently was Pitso Mosimane, who joined Ali Ahli Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
“I fully agree with Pitso’s statement saying ‘guys, jobs are not coming to you or in your living room area and you can’t coach in your garden’, it is not the case,” he added.
“The coaching job is different and that is what it has to be very clear if you want to make it happen.”
Another coach who was left SA for European shores is Alan Clark, who is the assistant coach at Kosovo Under-21 in the national team. He left in January last year.
Middendorp, who has coached Kaizer Chiefs twice, Maritzburg United four times, Chippa United, Golden Arrows, Free State Stars and Bloemfontein Celtic, is also not available to coach in SA right now after he joined FIFA’s pilot project to work with Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger until June next year.
Story by Robin-Duke Madlala (@duke_robin).
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