With the news of Mamelodi Sundowns ending the co-coaching arrangement at Chloorkop, here is what Fadlu Davids said about co-coaching after he left Orlando Pirates.
Davids was working as co-head coach alongside Mandla Ncikazi at Orlando Stadium last year before leaving the club after the 2021/22 campaign.
On Monday, Sundowns announced changes to their technical team, with Rulani Mokwena now being named as sole head coach, while Manqoba Mngqithi was demoted from co-coach to Senior Coach, Steve Komphela’s former role, while the latter is now the club’s First Team coach.
Downs are the latest club going away from the co-head coaching concept, which seemed to thrive at one point in South Africa, taking us back to Davids insisting that co-coaching doesn’t work for him.
“Although we have a good working relationship, the co-coaching concept has its challenges. Basically, this co-coaching concept does not work,” Davids told iDiski Times in an exclusive interview in edition 63.
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“There will always be a compromise on either side with most decisions we take. Because although you may both agree on the outcome you want, the application of achieving that outcome will 9/10 times differ.
“We always tried to remain professional throughout this experience, always trying to put the club first and ego’s aside. A club needs a strong leader and all the staff should follow his way.
“Sundowns are just an ‘exception to the rule’, two very good coaches working together and would do well at any club in the PSL, but put that same co-coaching combination at another club, you would see different results.”
Davids himself is currently without a job after his short intermezzo as assistant coach to Josef Zinnbauer at Lokomotiv Moscow.
