Orlando Pirates head coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has revealed he told Mpho Padime before his first-team debut for the Buccaneers in their MTN8 semi-final second leg win over Sekhukhune United.
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With Pirates comfortably leading 2-0, Ouaddou opted to hand Padime his senior debut after he recently stared for the club’s DStv Diski Challenge side during their champions tour in the Netherlands.
The Frenchman revealed he told the 19-year-old to simply go out and enjoy himself.
“I will be honest with you, I am someone who wants efficiency, I want goals and clean sheets,” he told SuperSport TV.
“But in the same time, like I just said to my boy, I said ‘come here, my boy it’s 2-0, just enjoy your football. I don’t have nothing else to say, just enjoy your football’.
“And sometimes you need to give this freedom to these boys, even I will be honest with you, climbing on the ball, stuff like that, when it’s 0-0 or draw, I don’t like.
“But when we are three goals or four goals, I have to integrate myself in the culture of the country and sometimes to leave them the freedom.”