On Tuesday evening, I was glued to the television watching Morocco dismantling Ivory Coast 1-0 to qualify for the quarterfinals of the on-going 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.<\/p>\n
Much as I was impressed with Morocco\u2019s tactical discipline under the tutelage of Coach Herve Renard, I was partly worried considering that they are in the same group B of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers with Malawi and Cameroon.<\/p>\n
Rachid Alioui scored with a terrific shot from 25 yards to earn the win for Morocco.<\/p>\n
Ivory Coast needed a win to go through but gave a listless performance, creating only two chances of note.<\/p>\n
The discipline in Morocco\u2019s backline and the Atlas Lions\u2019 attacking verve confirmed that the side was being drilled by a coach who knows his job.<\/p>\n
When I consider that this is the side that will be fighting for a 2019 Afcon group B slot with Malawi, since Cameroon already qualified by virtue of being hosts, I become scared.<\/p>\n
Malawi is a country which has invested a lot in coaches, hoping that they will be geniuses on the bench. But alas! There is no progress in terms of the standard of play of our teams.<\/p>\n
It will not be an overstatement when I call some of our so-called veteran coaches a bunch of tactless individuals whose mid- 1970s Ted Powell techniques have been overtaken by events of modern football.<\/p>\n
Some of our veteran coaches have remained loyal to those primitive football tactics that time has long forgotten. This has only given advantage to our opponents to punish us.<\/p>\n
Some of our veteran coaches have become so hopeless and relying on them to coach a national team in a game against Morocco is a recipe for embarrassment.<\/p>\n
These are the coaches who started drilling the national team before the facebook era but they have no international trophy to show apart from a litany of embarrassing moments.<\/p>\n
When Fam becomes so explicit and calls them a bunch of failures, they all become angry and curse the association still hoping that if given another chance they would bring change to our football.<\/p>\n
Reality hurts. We cannot be calling a spade a big spoon. Seriously, with the misery they have inflicted on Malawi soccer, we cannot allow these people to continue being a big part of our lives knowing fully that they are beyond redemption.<\/p>\n
The rigidity of the model of their game has been annoying and any serious football administrator cannot even consider them to be anywhere near the national team.<\/p>\n
Unless we invest in young experienced coaches, who have proven to be effective when coaching junior national teams, Malawi football will never develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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