Kaizer Chiefs Legend Backs Benni McCarthy’s Stance Over Coaching Bias in South Africa

Harambee Stars coach Benni McCarthy has on a number of occasions bemoaned the lack of trust in South African tacticians from the country’s top three clubs.

South African giants Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates are currently under foreign coaches and McCarthy is among those who have lamented over being overlooked for the biggest jobs in the country and his sentiments have also received support from a Chiefs legend.

McCarthy has previously been linked to Pirates and Sundowns but he never got the job while he recently expressed a desire to coach Chiefs but it does not look like he will be considered also.

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Former Chiefs goalkeeper Brian Baloyi has also voiced his concerns over the trend of the big three clubs to overlook local tacticians when he feels like they are as good, or at times better, than the foreign coaches that get the jobs.

“I think our biggest challenge as South African football and as South Africans is that we don’t value our own, we don’t respect our own,” Baloyi said as per KickOff.

“Let’s say Dillon Sheppard was the assistant to Nasreddine Nabi. Do you think Chiefs would have given him a chance to coach until now?” Baloyi posed. “Would Chiefs, or even Orlando Pirates or Mamelodi Sundowns, give this man a chance? No, they wouldn’t.”

With Chiefs set to be in the market for a new coach at the end of the season when the tenure of current co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef ends, Baloyi fears it will be a continuation of the same with foreign names linked to the role.

“When Chiefs are in conversation with a coach, you start seeing things popping up about European coaches,” he added.

“[But] we have our own all over the continent that are doing extremely well, and [South African] clubs are not giving them an opportunity,” he further stated, pointing to Simba SC’s Steve Barker, Brandley Carnell (Philadelphia Union) and Fadlu Davis (Raja Casablanca) as South African tacticians proving that they are good enough for the big jobs.