Sono speaks on Benni coaching Bafana
Legendary coach Jomo Sono says any one coach is good enough to lead the national team.
Jomo Sono, coach of Jomo Cosmos (Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix)
Sono’s comments come after some local coaches where earmarked to succeed Stuart Baxter as head coach of Bafana Bafana.
The Jomo Cosmos boss believes Benni McCarthy can coach Bafana Bafana, but needs to find the right people to be part of his technical team.
“Everybody is ready. But Bafana Bafana does not need a good coach. You need a person who has got good principles‚ who feels it when this country loses‚” Sono said.
“Like some of us‚ who are even scared to watch [Bafana]. Because my life is football. And when you see the national team going that way…
“I’ve been there [Bafana coach] four times. And I strongly believe that he [McCarthy] is ready. But it all depends on who’s around him.
“If he’s got the wrong people, he’s going to sink. Like Pitso [Mosimane] and all of them – they all sink.
“Because the national team is not the same as club level. [For Bafana] you’re meeting players from different cultures‚ players who have got their own mind‚ players based in Europe with a different mentality and so forth. So he can be ready. But it depends on who’s around him.”
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