Retired former midfield maestro Andile Jali has spoken about how misunderstood coach Pitso Mosimane is sometimes, adding he had a good time playing for the coach.
The two worked together at Sundowns between 2018 and 2023. Jali had joined the club after a four-year stint with KV Oostende in Belgium. He featured for the Brazilians 143 times and helped them clinch five league titles in his tenure.
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The 35-year-old described the former Al Ahly coach on the Arena Sports Show as someone who likes to test players to see their character however some people misunderstand that and lose out of being mentored by Mosimane.
Jail explained his own relationship with Mosimane as well.
“It was nice [relationship with Pitso],” said Jali.
“You know that coach people misunderstand him but Pitso is a coach that just when you think he doesn’t want you today, tomorrow he wakes up and says I want you. He’ll catch you off guard to say I’m not starting you this weekend but he takes you to camp.
“Then when you check the starting XI, you are starting. That’s how he catches you off guard to say I want to see what kind of a person are you. So people lose a lot from coach Pitso thinking he was saying they are not good enough to play for him.
“So, when you say I’m waiting, any day when you say I’m there I’m waiting for that day he says come then you enter. Then you are done because with me, he’d take me from home and then in the starting XI, from starting XI then home again, not even the bench, home again.
“It was like that with me and him and I was not even asking him why are you doing this because I knew that he’s doing this to make me angry.”
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