Coach Allan Freese has shed some light on why assistant coaches often remain behind when head coaches part ways from PSL clubs.
Freese has worked both as an assistant coach and head coach at the likes of Platinum Stars, Royal Eagles, AmaZulu FC, Free State Stars, Richards Bay and Highlands Park.
"Well, for me, the role of an assistant coach is to support the head coach in his decisions," Freese tells KickOff.
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"Both the head coach and the assistant plan everything together. The head coach comes with a plan to say, in this game I would like to play like this. There shouldn't be a fight between the head coach and the assistant coach. The head coach should remain a head coach and his assistant an assistant. It's a matter of conversation of putting strong points forward.
"So sometimes the assistant coach stays behind because the club hasn't got a coach ready to replaced the sacked one. So their immediate idea is to try the assistant hoping he can have fresh ideas. The backstabbing only happens if there is no honesty. When the owners start bypassing the coach and talk to his assistant. Sometimes the assistant coach doesn't know what to tell them because he also needs the job. And if the assistant refuses to badmouth the head coach, then both of them will get the boot.
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"But with us here in South Africa the owners will always prefer to communicate with the assistant coach to find out what is happening. And most times when a head coach is appointed, there's already an assistant waiting for him. As a coach when you go to a club you already find an assistant coach. Why? Well sometimes keeping tabs on you it's part of his job (laughs). But me I'm happy because the people that I have worked with, we've always had a good relationship."
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