Kaizer Chiefs are a team in need of a transformation and following their links with Pitso Mosimane, Lebohang Mokoena, who witnessed how Mosimane transformed Mamelodi Sundowns, revealed his secret to awakening the sleeping Tshwane giants.
Before Mosimane won the league title in his first full season in the 2013/14 season, Masandawana had not won the Premiership in seven years, after a high turnover of foreign coaches, who could not get the right balance of expensively assembled squads.
There are similarities with Chiefs' trophy drought, which has stretched to nine years and there have been suggestions from pundits and prominent stakeholders involved in the game that there are only few South African coaches who can turn things around at the Glamour Boys, with Mosimane and Benni McCarthy singled out.
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Media reports have suggested recently that there are disciplinary issues and internal struggles at Chiefs, which indicates that the coach who takes over permanently would need to be big on player management and control of the dressing room.
Mokoena, who was at Sundowns when they brought in Mosimane, says the first thing that the former Bafana Bafana coach focused on when he arrived at the club was to control and manage disciplinary issues common with South African players.
"Coach Pitso is a different breed. He knows the mentality of South African players. He took care of outside things first, 'I don't want players who go out at night, I don't want players who come here drinking alcohol, I need you to be focused, I need you to sit at home'," Mokoena revealed on TK Solutions TV YouTube Channel.
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"He was not only the coach at the ground but he wanted us to know the theory of football. Because sometimes people don't understand that there's a theory of football and there is practical on the ground.
"But most players, we don't know theory that much, we're mostly practical, we just listen to the coach but if you get the balance right, you get to understand and you become coachable. So he came with that mentality," he added.
