Wrote:
Muhammad Hammam
–
Thursday 3 December 2020
02:13 PM
–
–
Betso Mosimane, the coach of Al-Ahly, revealed his first days since he assumed the technical leadership of the Red Team instead of Swiss René Fyler.
Musimane said in statements via the South African newspaper, “The Times,”: “I felt that I was in a cycle. Some people thought that things were easy after Al-Ahly took over and the team won the league championship.”
He added, “There were only five matches left in the league and the results were very important to me.”
And the current coach continued his remarks: “The league matches were being played under pressure because everyone wants to see, can the management trust this man? Who is this man?”
And he continued: “I had to start my own journey by winning matches, so I changed the way we play, and set up my program and in order to do that you had to get rid of the old programs and style.”
He explained, “It was like cleaning the mobile phone for me. I had to tell people how to implement the new program that I set and teach them how to do it.”
“We got the league, but the way I played it I don’t think is the right way to win the CAF Champions League,” he added.
Musimani said during his statements: “Thank God, things have gone in the right direction. We have not lost a match yet, and our nets have not accepted many goals and we scored as well.”
Musimani continued: “I was under pressure. It was difficult for me because Al-Ahly since 1907 has been contracting with coaches from Europe and South America in addition to Egyptians.”
And he ended: “There is also pressure to win matches and compete with both Zamalek and Pyramids, as the conflict between Al-Ahly and Zamalek is like between Sundowns and Caires Chefs.”
Musimani was able to lead Al-Ahly to win the CAF Champions League title recently at the expense of rival Zamalek, with two goals to one.
Musimani at the local level ended his season with Al-Ahly, achieving the league title and currently leading the team to reach the final round of the Egypt Cup competition, after defeating Al-Ittihad of Alexandria with two goals to one.
Al-Ahly will meet its rival Talaia Al-Jaish next Saturday at the “Burj Al Arab” stadium in the final of the Egypt Cup season (2019-2020).
– .