One of SA’s most esteemed goalkeeper mentors, Sean Louw, has issued a come-and-get-me plea to clubs after leaving Moroccan giants Wydad Casablanca, where he was part of coach Rulani Mokwena’s technical panel.
The 32-year-old Louw said as much as he won’t hesitate to take Mokwena’s offer if the ex-Mamelodi Sundowns coach wants to work with him on his next gig, he’s open to taking any job before then.
“If coach Rulani had to call me right now to say, ‘Let’s go to this club’, of course I’d go with him 100% because he’s a brilliant coach. I didn’t think twice when he called me to join him at Wydad. The project of working with him [Mokwena] is always exciting because he knows so much about so many things ...it’s unbelievable,” Louw told Sowetan.
If coach Rulani had to call me right now to say, ‘Let’s go to this club’, of course I’d go with him 100% because he’s a brilliant coach. I didn’t think twice when he called me to join him at Wydad.
— Sean Louw
“As much as I’d be excited to work with him again, I won’t say I’d sit at home and wait for him to call me. I am willing to look to join any team that would present an interesting offer. But in a perfect world, I’d take coach Rulani’s offer, wherever he goes. But we all know this isn’t a perfect world. Teams can call me, I am available.”
Louw said there was a stigma that he was now “expensive” after a short spell in Morocco. “People say I am expensive, which is not true. That stigma must go away because it pushes clubs away,” the former Chippa United and Banyana Banyana keeper coach said.
Louw was part of Mokwena’s technical team that lasted just eight months at Wydad. Another member of Mokwena’s technical team in Morocco was assistant coach Sinethemba Bandela, who has since been snapped up by Chippa United as a head coach.
Mokwena himself is said to have declined a few offers from clubs in East Africa and the Gulf region.
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Louw ventured into coaching after his career as a keeper was ended by a motorbike accident en route to school in 2010 in his hometown Bloemfontein.
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