South African coach Rulani Mokwena enters a rapidly revolving coaching door at MC Alger, who have built a record of making hasty changes on the technical bench.
Many North African teams have become impatient when it comes to coaches, being quick to make coaches scapegoats, rather than solve underlying problems.
With Mokwena joining MC Alger, it does not get any more frightening when it comes to the longevity of coaches at the Algerian giants.
In search of a bigger and enticing project after parting ways with Wydad Casablanca, the 38-year-old coach has joined a side that has had 24 coaching changes at least in the last decade.
That means on a rough average, in the last ten years, coaches at The Doyen last six months at best.
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A closer look, however, shows that only one coach has lasted over one calendar year, with no coach lasting at least two full years at MCA in the last ten years.
During the period of the last decade, the longest-serving coach was Frenchman Patrice Beaumelle, who was at the helm for one-year nine months between March 2023 and December 2024.
The longest-serving coaches after Beaumelle could last for only one year as another French coach Bernard Casoni was in charge, between August 2017 and August 2018.
Algerian Nabil Neghiz also could only be at the helm for one year, between February 2020 and February 2021.
Moroccan Redhouene Felhi also lasted just one year between February 2023 and February 2024, considering only the last decade.
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Ironically, Mokwena enters the Alger evolving door with open eyes after stating that he would learn much more with a six-months experience at MC rather than sitting at home during the same period, in an interview on Metro FM Sports, when asked if he was not concerned by the volatility of appointments up North.
