Orlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou is adamant the technical team he found at the club will help him realise his objectives.
The former Morocco international took over at the Buccaneers after the exit of coach Jose Riveiro, who opted for a new challenge at Al Ahly. The 46-year-old opted to work with the technical team that was under the Spaniard.
Mandala Ncikazi, Rayaan Jacobs, Tyron Damons, and Helmy Gueldich are the men who will be helping Ouaddou deliver at Bucs. The tactician has since explained why he did not come with his staff, which is nowadays a norm when a club makes a change in the coaching department.
‘In South Africa, we have competencies'
“Usually when a coach comes into a club, he wants to destroy everything; we just have to be clever and to analyse what was good and maybe to come and to bring some something, and to build on this foundation that have been well done by the previous coach and the previous coaches as well. I think it’s very important to build on that,” he told Pirates TV.
“The same way, a lot of people may ask again why he came alone? Of course, I have staff. I’m working with the staff, maybe five, six people, but I came to Marumo alone. I came alone here, and I will explain to you why. Because I believe deeply in Africans’ competencies and in South Africa, we have competencies, big universities, sports universities, people who have badges here. So, if I bring somebody and I can bring because I have people who are working with me. If I bring them, which sign will I give as an African, which signal would I give, I give to the people to say, hey we are not competent. Africans are not competent.
“I can promise you that if we take time to profile the right competencies in our continent, you can see that we have competence, we have to believe in the competencies. It’s very important. Some coaches who won the Afcon can tell you, I believe, that on competencies, it’s very important, not because he comes from outside. We believe in competencies. So, I’m happy to work with the people who are already in the club, and I think they have a legacy, and maybe we can go quicker to help the club,” Ouaddou concluded.
