FROM WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR TWO YEARS IN A ROW TO BENCH WARMER AT REAL MADRID

KAKA IN HIS GLORY DAYS

Former AC milan now Real Madrid midlilefielder Kaka.(dailymail.co.uk)

Former world footballer of the year Ricardo Izecson do Santos Leite, commonly known as Kaka was once one of the biggest names in football. Currently playing for Spanish league giants Real Madrid Kaka has not seen enough game time which has resulted in his perfomance dropping. 

This past week Kaka was part of the Madrid side that lost to Bayern Munich in a Uefa championship semi-final match at Madrids home ground the Santiago Bernabeu. His perfomance was poor and lacked the quality that he is known to produce on the field. Kaka had said before that he wanted to leave the Madrid camp and go play elswhere as he was not getting game time at Real Madrid, this after recieving descent offers from Manchester United, Arsenal and his former team AC Milan http://www.soccernews.com/. Although Kaka felt that he needed to move his coach at Madrid, Jose Mourinho feels that the team still needs Kaka and has not agreed to release Kaka from his contruct.

KAKA STILL LEFT ON THE SIDE LINES

Real Madrid midlefielder Kaka warming the bench with fellow team mate Esteban Granero. (fifa.com)

 I think that it's time Kaka left Real Madrid seeing that the more he stays there, the faster his career will go down the drain and I do not see any point in Jose refusing to release him if he keeps him on the bench half the time, he is killing Kakas' talent and Kaka is not getting any younger.
 It has come to my attention that most coaches both locally and internationally hold players to contructs although they are not using them, this to me kills players' talents hence Kakas current form. We might argue that maybe Kaka is not as good as he once was and that Jose putting him on the bench is not to blame for the way Kaka has being perfoming lately.

KOMPHELA FOR BAFANA BAFANA

WILL HE GET THE JOB DONE

Free State Stars former coach now bafana bafana assistant coach, Steve Komphela(kaliwiseonline.com)

It has being comfirmed that Steve Komphela a former South African premier soccer league coach has being appointed as the new South African national team assistant coach. With his recent achievements at club side Free State Stars I think he is the right man to help bring positive change to the South African national team , with the recent drop in wins and goals at the national team Komphela is for me the man to bring his experience and style of coaching to the benefit of the national team.

For me the appointment of Komphela is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel for Bafana Bafana, however it concerns me that Komphela does not have any silverware on his reputation as a South African coach. At a press conference held in Sandton this past week the current South African national team head coach Pitso Mosimane said that the appointment of Komphela is indeed a good one and he will work well with him by his side. The appointment of Komphela to me shows the following character of (SAFA):

• SAFA is starting to recognise the importance of local coaches
• The national team needs a person with local experience in the managenet of the national team,seeing that the current technical didnt have anyone form South Africa.

The combination of Komphela and Mosimane is a promising one and it is about time Local coaches are given a chance at managing the national team.

VV LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

 A CLUBLESS VV

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 Vladimir Vermozovic has indeed being given the matching orders by kaizer chiefs.All eyes are now on Ace khuse who was appointed as caretaker coach at kaizer chiefs untill the end of the season, like Augusto Palacios of Orlando pirates Khuse will head the team till the end of the season. my main concern though is whether this is the right time to bring in a caretaker coach to lead the team

• firstly the team is under a lot of preasure in the league as they are fourth on the PSL log
• secondly will Khuse be able to handle such preasure, because apart from the league there is also the nedbank cup to worry about.
• thirthly I feel that bringing a caretaker coach at this this stage of the league will see kaizer chiefs loose out on both tthe league and the nedbank cup

Replacing VV with a caretaker coach at this stage of the league is not a good idea, chiefs should have let VV finish off the season as it is almost over or got a coach with expirience in the coaching field. As far as the league is concerned, kaizer chiefs are digging their own grave.

Another aspect that comes to mind is the fact that two of the most biggest teams in south african football history(kaizer chiefs and orlando pirates) are being monitored by caretaker coaches, what does that say about south african football. Veteran coach Ted Dimitru went on kick off live and expressed his views on the situation saying that this whole caretaker coaches issue is ubnormal and its not good for the countrykickoff.com.

VETERAN COACH TED DIMITRU SPEAKS HIS MIND

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"It is bad for our top clubs to be coached by people who know they will most definitely be replaced at the end of the season. This just shows how much inferiority is attached to coaching in South Africa and exposes the management of the clubs when it comes to coaching''. I agree with Dimitru's views, to me this situation brings the following conclusions;

• This kind of situation confuses the fans
•   I don't expect to see miracles with the coming in of caretaker coaches  
• This kind of habit of having caretaker coaches will lead to the rest of the world not taking us seriously because this is not expected of the two main teams in the country.

 PSL teams should start taking coaching seriously because the whole caretaker coach issue is a step in the wrong direction.