PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – MAY 20: Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rulani Mokwena in the course of the CAF Champions League match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Wydad Athletic Membership at Loftus Stadium on Could 20, 2023 in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photograph by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Pictures)
Moroccan giants Wydad Athletic Membership have confirmed the signing of South African coach Rulani Mokwena because the membership’s new head coach.
In what has been one of the vital sudden twists within the African soccer panorama, Mamelodi Sundowns bizarrely parted methods with Mokwena shortly earlier than the beginning of the membership’s pre-season preparations.
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The four-time league winner was by no means going to be in the marketplace for lengthy, and Wydad wasted no time in securing his companies.
Mokwena is known to have penned a two-year deal and will likely be convey on board his personal technical group.
After days of negotiations by way of his representatives, the 37-year-old landed in Morocco on Thursday to finalise the deal.
Wydad are three-time winners of the CAF Champions League and went so far as the ultimate within the 2022/23 marketing campaign.
They had been abysmal final season, failing to progress previous the group stage, and won’t participate within the subsequent version as they completed sixth within the Botola Professional League.
The younger tactician has his work reduce out in making an attempt to show the fortunes of a massively supported aspect that has a wealthy historical past and successful pedigree on the continent, however will likely be happy that he will likely be answerable for the aspect once they participate in subsequent 12 months’s FIFA Membership World Cup, which his former aspect Sundowns are additionally part of.
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Equally, Pitso Mosimane, who final week in a radio interview reiterated his stance that Mokwena is a greater coach than him, left the Chloorkop-based aspect in 2020 for North Africa, becoming a member of Al Ahly, the place he was below scrutiny from the second he landed.
An identical destiny awaits Mokwena, whose favorite phrase: “uneasy is the pinnacle that wears the crown” will likely be put to the check each waking hour of his new life in Morocco, infamous as a football-mad nation.
