I totally agree with those who said football has the unique way of providing us with all the extremes of what life has to offer.<\/p>\n
This week, I was thrown into one of the extremes of frustrations when RVG, my tormentor-in-chief, did the unthinkable at the on-going Cosafa Castle Cup in Polokwane, South Africa.<\/p>\n
For the second time in row, the talentless expatriate coach has brought shame to the nation after failing to beat lowly-ranked sides like Mauritius and Botswana.<\/p>\n
The Flames\u2019 shoddy performance has dominated the headlines in our dailies all week.<\/p>\n
This is the team that has become so hopeless and lifeless. I saw the utter confusion in the team when it succumbed to a 1-0 loss to Mauritius.<\/p>\n
It was even heart-breaking to concede an equaliser three minutes before the final whistle in the game against Botswana.<\/p>\n
Seriously, if RVG\u2019s Flames cannot beat small teams like Mauritius, who else can they beat in this region?<\/p>\n
I had problems to face the reality that confronted the team which has become so clueless since RVG took over the mantle and ended up retiring to bed frustrated.<\/p>\n
It is a fact that the team has young talented players but the biggest problem with the team is lack of tactical acumen by our pampered foreign mentor.<\/p>\n
RVG should simply accept that he has no football brains to transform Malawi soccer and the best he can do is to step down.<\/p>\n
In fact, it was unheard of for Malawi to employ such an inexperienced coach. Some of us who have been in this game for some time appreciate the demands that go with coaching a national team.<\/p>\n
It was a gamble to trust such a raw coach with the complicated task of coaching the national team.<\/p>\n
It is even suicidal to invest our trust as a nation in such a novice hoping that he can improve Malawi football.<\/p>\n
We should not be blinded by the spirit of patriotism and ignore the reality on the ground that our national soccer team has completely nose-dived since the coming in of RVG and his so-called football philosophy.<\/p>\n
In fact, we need an explanation from Fam on how this coach was employed because even a novice in football can see that he has no football brains and is waste of time and resources. Keeping him in the job will be very costly to our football.<\/p>\n
Seriously, Fam needs to explain why we should continue paying for such hopeless services.<\/p>\n
Besides his limited football brains, it is also a fact that RVG\u2019s relationship with some senior players is getting sour by the day, no wonder some of them were not available for the Cosafa trip.<\/p>\n
It is better for us to be losing with local coaches than an expatriate who we are paying millions of kwacha despite his limited knowledge of the game.<\/p>\n
We, therefore, ask RVG to pack up and go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I totally agree with those who said football has the unique way of providing us with all the extremes of what life has to offer. This week, I was thrown into one of the extremes of frustrations when RVG, my tormentor-in-chief, did the unthinkable at the on-going Cosafa Castle Cup in Polokwane, South Africa. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66163,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66160\/revisions\/66163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}