Teboho Moloi Supports McCarthy For Bucs Coaching Job

Former Orlando Pirates player and assistant coach Teboho Moloi is backing Benni McCarthy for Buccaneers coaching job.

Pirates have been falling short for quite some time and since Micho Sredojevic left the club in 2019, they haven’t been consistent.

Furthermore, Fadlu Davids who was the co-coach of Pirates was sacked on Friday but his partner Mandla Ncikazi is still at the club and it remains to be seen what the management is going to decide.

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Moloi believes that McCarthy is the right man to take Bucs back to their footing since he played for the team.

“He [McCarthy] played for the team, he understands what it means to wear the black and white jersey of Orlando Pirates and he has done very well as a coach,” Moloi said in the interview with Malatse Mphahlele.

“He is one of best players we have produced who was able to perform at the highest level of the game. He came at a time when Pirates needed to defend the treble and, honestly, him and Daine Klate did very well with the rest of the other guys.

“For him to be given a chance to coach the team, I think he might come up with the right things. He might come up with the right formulas, talk to the players and make them understand what it means to play for Pirates.

“For me, if he was to be given a chance, I can put my head on a block and say he is the right type of guy to take the team back to winning ways.”

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McCarthy was fired by AmaZulu in March after string of poor results. The Durban-based club president Sandile Zungu said they sacked McCarthy because they were not doing well.

“There is no way we would have clinched a top-four spot with Benni in charge, absolutely no way,” he told KickOff.

“We were of the view that let’s not overburden him with this responsibility because either he was leaving now or at the end of the season.

“The end of the season with us out of the top eight would have been a disaster for us.

“It’s quite clear results are what matters most, and results were not forthcoming, and unfortunately with the coach that’s where it starts.

“If the team is doing very well he takes the glory, if the team is not doing very well he takes the fall.”