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born 1964 South Africa
Pitso John Hamilton Mosimane (born 26 July 1964) is a South African former professional football player and current manager of the South Africa national soccer team.
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I believe in my recipe and I can’t change it or compromise it. So we were not aligned and parted ways amicably.
When you are working towards a vision, don’t ever think the process will be smooth.
If you’re a coach who just wants to arrest the slide you can do that, but that doesn’t mean that’s what you want long-term.
We set up short-term and long-term plans with the club but during the process our visions became different.
I like my teams to build from the back, we need to keep the ball and dominate our opponents.
I preferred training sessions which incorporated that and it made me think, ‘Why can’t we do things with the ball?’.
I’ve been a coach for over 20 years and won 19 trophies using this recipe and then you tell me to use a different one.
Sometimes you copy things as a coach. I like how (Jurgen) Klopp plays with his counter-pressing.
I always wanted to run more, but I didn’t know what to do. We didn’t have people who understood specific football training drills, we just used coaches from athletics.
I accidentally became a coach, I wanted to be a strength and conditioning coach. I was never in top condition as a player.
I changed the whole team and recruited different players with the right mentality. We won the league in my first full year.
We used to do 12-kilometre endurance runs in the woods and mountains, which I hated. Footballers cover that distance on the pitch but it features stops, starts, jumps, twists and moving sideways.
I like teams that are really principled in terms of defending too. So I take all those good things together
So I decided I wanted to be a coach that focuses on football training.
I was like a sponge — absorbing everything that he did. I learned a lot from him about movement, tactics and how to organise your team.
When we don’t have possession, we need to recover the ball as soon as possible