With his appointment forced by the health condition of his predecessor Augusto Palacios and coming with the season already in motion De Sa takes over the volatile seat with the added muscle to make changes on the bench.
"If ever there are extra requirements that he needs in the technical team like an assistant coach or whatever we will accommodate him because we want him to work with people that he is comfortable with," says Khoza.
De Sa arrives at Pirates with his former team-mate at the then Wits University Tebogo Moloi serving as first assistant with Siphiwe Ngwenya as the other assistant after being seconded by Palacios.
The Brazilian duo of goalkeeper coach Alexandre Bezzerra Revoredo and respected fitness trainer Japhet Borges – both of whom De Sa will be at home conversing with in Portuguese – make up the rest of the technical team.
"We haven’t really decided on anything yet because it is important that we first get to see what we have first. We will not rush into things and like the chairman has said if there is need to then we will look into it," says De Sa when asked about the technical team.
Coaches the world over have been known to work with support staff that they are comfortable working with to avoid back stabbing and clash of personalities and coaching styles.
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posted: 09:46 pm
A team coached by a former goalkeeper...
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Does it really matter what position you played in order to labelled a good coach? Some have never really kicked a ball in a professional level but today they are doing well as soccer coaches.
Are you on nyaope or whoonga? it seems that you drink alcohol on an empty stomach. You don't know nothing about soccer, why don't you go to soccer laduma with this trash comments? AND DON'T EVER ASKED THOSE SICK QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PLS CHAIRMAN>
What it so special about you chairman....when you gorillas call Kaizer snr the chubaba and all sorts of names do we cry like you.....hamba uyo nya le Mayfair silima.....hamba uyo lala stop being a cry baby.....the internet is not fo sisis like you.....its a jungle out here......you cant blog like me sani.....i was born in a township that has given birth to the biggest team in the land......you just a part time football supporter hence you visit the blog once a day....go and Jika le ku Jika Majika nabo Thembi seete and leave football to us...bloody agent
Orlando Pirates Football club deserves a better coach than this failure of a coach.....i have to agree with you Bhakaniya.....many hardcore Pirates supporters share the same sentiments......amateam ayazenzele these days ku Pirates....This man took Wits to Mvela and failed at Santos....how long has been coaching in PSL?.....one trophy?...Wits finished outside top 8 last season..please.......what joke.
I see this strategy by the Orlando Pierats chairman and i love it very much. As long as we retain the #1 spot until the end of the season.
First it was Mhlongo with unlicensed fire arm.........Now it is De Sa with a Baseball Bat in his car.
If you don't include that on your CV i bet you wont be taken seriously at Pierats.
Orlando Pirates Football club deserves a better coach than this failure of a coach.....i have to agree with you Bhakaniya.....many hardcore Pirates supporters share the same sentiments......amateam ayazenzele these days ku Pirates....This man took Wits to Mvela and failed at Santos....how long has been coaching in PSL?.....one trophy?...Wits finished outside top 8 last season..please.......what joke.
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@Phefeni boy
What about your chuck noris? how many trophies did he won wherever he came from? Who are you to say Pitates deserve a better coach? Since when do you wish Pirates can be better than your Chips? I think you are jealous for a young local dynamic coach of De Sa calibre. You are actually forseeing Pep Quardiola in De Sa and this won't make you any happy at all. Worry much about your chuck noris and wake up to the reality that De Sa is our coach not chips coach. I see you have fake pirates fans critizing our Chairman decision with you. What they don't know is that the Chairman is a good decision maker, for the country and for the strongest club in South Africa.
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A chef isnt judged by the final product when the ingredients are different. The material (quality of players/ ingredients) that De Sa worked with at both wits & santos are nowhere near whats at Pirates. Leal struggled with amazulu , won one cup at swallows while ending the season outside top8 bracket, but won two cups in just 6months at Pirates, something that took the so called special one 3 seasons to achieve at chips.....Let me reiterate that "a chef isnt judged by the final product when the ingredients are different".
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well said de Galaxy dat 's way we are quite we knw very well were de Lig goes to, dat bustard dey can't get tired of celebrating nothing, Mpsa tse.