Kaizer Chiefs legend Brian Baloyi has questioned the reappointment of coach Stuart Baxter at the club.
Baloyi feels that Amakhosi should have given interim co-coach Arthur Zwane a chance to show what he is capable of. After the dismissal of Gavin Hunt as head coach in May, Zwane and Dillon Sheppard were appointed interim co-coaches to lead the team.
Since the pair took over, Amakhosi are unbeaten in four matches in all competitions. They won two DStv Premiership games to secure top 8 finish for Chiefs, and also won a CAF Champions League tie at Wydad Casablanca before drawing the second leg at FNB Stadium last weekend to reach the final.
Baxter will take over as soon as he receives his work permit, but the club's decision to reappoint him has not gone down well with many people, including Baloyi. The former ace keeper feels the recycling of coaches is not helping the development of coaches.
“For me, I’m tired of this rotation of coaches and players. We keep saying Arthur Zwane is a young coach. He’s 48 years old (from September),” Baloyi told the media during the AmaZulu Community Trust and Hollywoodbets Siyakhula U15 Cup launch.
“You still haven’t given him a chance to coach. In other countries, when you talk about the young coach, they are in their early 30s. You have young coaches in their 30s who are coaching their national teams. Even Doctor Khumalo, when he went to coach Baroka, he got into it in his 50s and we still called him a young coach.
“Do they have to be in their 50s or 60s and then given a chance to coach in the PSL? It is about time that coaches like Arthur, if he is not given a chance at Chiefs, must go to another club, to be a head coach.”
The 47-year-old Baloyi, who recorded 338 appearances for Amakhosi from 1993 to 2004, believes that getting a coach who had never coached in SA before would be the best option than to recycle the same coaches.
“I’m not just talking about Chiefs, if you see how we are rotating coaches, how coaches in the same season come to the clubs here, he’s fired and six months later he resurfaces at another club, a year later he’s back at the same club,” he said.
“Are we in short supply of coaches, or we just don’t want to give people a chance? If we are in short supply of coaches, then let’s get coaches in other countries who have never coached here before. In the 16 [PSL] clubs, there’s like 10 coaches who have been rotated in the last 20 years in this league.”
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