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born 1978
Abdeslam Ouaddou ( born 1 November 1978) is a Moroccan football coach and former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is the current coach of South African Premier Soccer League club Orlando Pirates.
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I’m a bit confused when it comes to experience and competency.
I hope he finds joy there, even without the fans. There’s huge pressure from the club owners on the foreign players.
People can say, ‘This coach, what did he win?, he’s not experienced and how can he coach such a big club?’.
In training, I always said the job doesn’t start in the game—it starts in training at the start of the week.
At the same time, you can have a player in your team who has 15 years of experience but didn’t win any trophies.
But on the other hand, you can have a young coach with competency, but he’s starving; he wants to win.
You can have someone who has been coaching for the past 20 years but didn’t win anything.
I don't want to come back on what happened in the AFCON, but they did their best.
I think if he listened to me last season, he would have been at the World Cup, definitely.
I think many people can be disappointed but I was there for the game of Zimbabwe, South Africa did their best.
There aren’t many supporters like here in South Africa; some stadiums are empty.
I think it gives the opportunity for the coach to see all his team in preparing for the World Cup
In one side it's good for us, it's good for Pirates as well because our players will be motivated to show themselves and to perform in order to be selected by the coach Hugo Broos. So, I think it's a good thing for us.
But you can have a 16-year-old with fantastic qualities who can make you win the league
He’s going abroad; it’s not easy. He will have to be mentally strong
But I believe more in the competency than experience
It took a bit of time for him to understand what I expect of him