AmaZulu coach Ayanda Dlamini says he has been left disappointed at foreign coaches getting the jobs in South Africa, saying some of them are some kind of a joke.
Whether Dlamini was referring that indirectly to Romain Folz, one cannot put the finger on it. Dlamini replaced him at the club early this month due to poor results, as sometimes Folz appeared to be out of depth in the job.
Dlamini stepped up as the fire fighter after French/Moroccan Folz was redeployed into a technical director role to advise the club’s president Sandile Zungu.
Folz was put aside as Usuthu have not won in four matches, losing three of those, leading to being sucked down 13th in the DStv Premiership table with 29 points after 26 matches.
Zungu said the club’s aim now is to survive the relegation zone, something he never imagined since he bought the club in October 2020.
“To be honest with you, at some point, we get disappointed,” said Dlamini of foreign coaches getting jobs in SA.
“(Our clubs) go hire a coach that, I don’t know – Germany, Portugal or wherever, but he comes here and does something that you can do better, to be honest.”
When asked if he was referring to Folz, Dlamini didn’t want to be drawn.
“No, I won’t mention the names,” he said.
“But it is like that and it is a fact. Sometimes you see a coach has qualifications and comes from somewhere and practically he’s not in the right standards.”
There’s a huge outcry that South African coaches are not well academically equipped and that’s why clubs appoint foreign coaches, but Dlamini said, as much as that is the case, these coaches do things that are not out of the ordinary.
“There’s a difference between practical and theory,” said Dlamini.
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“I’m sorry to say this. We can go and do these licences, yes we have to and it is a must. We have started it already, but you must find the balance with the understanding of our (SA) players, understanding their culture, and everything of our players.
“We as South African coaches, we understand the culture of these players – how they go about, what they need, the style of play and everything.
“You cannot just come and force things here, they will never respond well.
“Yes, licenses are very important to be obtained as coaches, but we have to balance it also.”
It has been eight years since the last foreign coach won the DStv Premiership title, which was Stuart Baxter at Kaizer Chiefs.
