Marumo Gallants coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has tipped Rulani Mokwena to be one of the best coaches in the world and needs patience in his current job.
Mokwena’s career as a coach has been on an upward trajectory having led Mamelodi Sundowns to an unprecedented seventh domestic league title last season and is currently with Wydad in the Botola Pro League in Morocco.
Mokwena has however struggled with consistent results and recently made bold claims that if he is deemed to be holding Wydad back, he will ask to be released.
Meanwhile, Ouaddou spoke to iDiski Times writer Lethabo Kganyago in edition 196 of the newspaper where he was asked if he had any advice for Mokwena with Ouaddou saying Rulani knows what he is doing, and people should be patient with him as he is one for the future.
“I don’t have any advice to give to my brother Coach Rulani because he knows very well, the ecosystems,” Ouaddou told iDiski Times.
“But what I can suggest to him is to be patient because Morocco is a land of football, very passionate people. And of course, like in every country, in Mediterranean countries, people are very impatient. Plus, you can add this new ecosystem of digital world where the coaches are all the time under pressure because of the social networks, and this doesn’t help the coaches to have more serenity and to work. Everybody has to know that a club is like a company now in our days and a project needs time.
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“There is short projects, there is medium projects and there is long-term projects. And I think Coach Rulani is in Morocco for the long term. We should give him time, and I’m sure that if we give him time, he will win trophies and he will bring back Casablanca again in the lights of the African cups, the Champions League in Africa.
“We need just to be patient like in every club, actually, but I understand that in the world of football, a lot of Chairmen have pressure from the fans, and it pushes them sometimes to fire the coach. Definitely, Rulani is the future. He’s the modern coach, and we need to support him because in the future he will be one of the best coaches in the world, not only in Africa.”
