Leading South African football club Kaizer Chiefs named little known Serb Vladimir Vermezovic as coach on Monday.
A terse Chiefs statement said the club had discussed the position vacated by Turk Muhsin Ertugral last week with several coaches and appointed Vermezovic, but gave no contract details.
The selection of a foreigner was expected after club chairman and former national star Kaizer Motaung said only two South African coaches were capable of fulfilling the role and neither was available.
Vermezovic has coached Spartak Trnava of Slovakia and Partizan of Serbia after a playing career involving clubs in his homeland, Spain, Greece and Germany.
He faces a huge task in South Africa as the most popular club in the country have underachived for several years, finishing third behind SuperSport United and arch rivals Orlando Pirates in the 2008-20009 Premiership.
Finishing third entitles Chiefs to play next year in the African Confederation Cup, a competition for national cup winners and selected third placed league teams that South African sides have shown little interest in.
no dnt think he can make any change 2 chifes becouse it is already done and it will not win any leuge now its time for them to let tshabalala go and spread is soccer to other teams now even zwane mst be realsd at his cintract .
i think bypassing the likes of Dr. Khumalo, whom we have seen previously that he is capable of the position, is something that shows us as fans that we are not willing to improve ourselves and our sfootball standard. we, however, have seen men with big CVs failing feel us with joy, how on earth are we expecting the unexperienced and uneminent one to bring us the moon and the stars!
we will wait and see. but bare in mind that as a fan i am not satisfiet. i love my team and it hurts to see it being weak and weakened.
No offense to any fans of the team’s but who is Kaizer Chefs? I aint heard of them……
i don’t think brad knows football cause k chiefs is a well known south african team worldwide-i’m specifically from germany but i know them
fah!!!! I dont pay attention to South Africa, except for next summer! My focus is on Europe and MLS, not on Africa.
Sorry bout that but its just the way it is round my town. Theres a couple of old- real old-footie fans who dont even know who Messi is down the road.
thats jes an example…..
i think we must give the new coach a chance, and my advice to him is to get guys like Ace, Doctor etc. To arist him and teach him our football culture at chiefs. He must first work on our defence which our previous coach destabilized.
Kaizer must fire boby,u cant manage what u dont know,u cant take people to where u ‘ve never been.boby never played the game.