Kenya national team coach Benni McCarthy has opened up about his time and ultimately his departure from Cape Town City, saying there was a time he felt betrayed by someone within the club.
The hot seat at City was McCarthy’s first managerial job in 2017 and he secured his first trophy in the MTN8 the next season.
He left the club in November 2019, and looking back he now revealed he learnt about the importance of having a trusted technical team.
“It’s the worst,” McCarthy told iDiski Times editor Rob Delport in edition 211 of the newspaper.
“It’s the worst thing that you could ever experience, because football can be a lonely job when you’re a coach, when you’re a manager, and now you’ve got people that you’ve got to hide from as well?
“Because you can’t share your ideas, you can’t share your work, you can’t share your tactics, because they’ll use it against you to help to make you fail. You know, it was the worst, and I experienced that in my first experience in my coaching career, Cape Town City… oh my God.”
McCarthy adds he understands that people need to survive in their jobs, however lamented the disloyalty when some don’t miss a chance to unseat someone who has brought them into a project.
“I know it’s a competitive environment, but for some it’s survival,” he added.
“And they don’t think, ‘But yes, I have to survive, but this guy is the one that made me survive to begin with, so let me place my loyalty to him and let me give him everything that I’ve got, because he took me from the dead, basically.’
“But now they don’t think like that. They think, ‘Ah, he took me from the dead, now I’m in, and now I want his job. Let me stick him, because I’m in now and then, if he goes, maybe I’ll become head coach. I’ll become the main man’. Ai.”
