Switching from a playing career into coaching has for some football greats such as Ryan Giggs, Claude Makelele and Rigobert Song been seamless.<\/p>\n
However, there is emerging evidence that a playing career is no longer a diplomatic passport to a successful coaching career.<\/p>\n
Thinking that best players can make good coaches is like saying a company\u2019s best plumber can become a good chief executive officer.<\/p>\n
Coaching is evolving.<\/p>\n
With players earning obscene amounts, heavy investments in the game, agents and gobetweens becoming shrewd, the profession is no longer just about coaching, but allround football management.<\/p>\n
Now, there is an analytical and scientific side to football that has most managers hiring performance and match analysts.<\/p>\n
From just being able to establish statistics such as ball-possession and passes, managers now go a step further to even study players\u2019 lung capacity Softwares have been developed to measure just about everything managers need to know about players, tactics and opponents.<\/p>\n
For example, at his finest hour in management, recently-fired Real Madrid boss Rafael Benitez would instruct his players to delay execution of throw-ins by six seconds and kill six minutes of opponents\u2019 time in every game.<\/p>\n
All this brings me to what should be encouraging good news that Malawi has 27 Confederation of African Football (Caf) A-licensed football coaches, 66 for Caf B, 22 and 60 hold Uefa and Caf C respectively.<\/p>\n
Now, these are no ordinary badges. But why are domestic coaching standards still pathetic and domestic coaches hopeless?<\/p>\n
Why do local coaches struggle to make ends meet instead of seeking employment across the borders?<\/p>\n
It is clear that Football Association of Malawi is wasting resources by enrolling every Jim and Jack into these expensive coaching courses.<\/p>\n
From the 27, very few are ambitious enough to convince any team across the borders.<\/p>\n
A Malawian coach expects free coaching courses, and when they graduate, jobs to come knocking on their doors. Most coaches do not even have a written resume, let alone a mere business card that would cost K100 to produce.<\/p>\n
Our coaches have intellectual challenges. They need to be baby-sat and spoon-fed all the time, and the way they conduct themselves is uninspiring.<\/p>\n
Fam must focus on opening up such high-level coaching courses to other professionals such as secondary school teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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