What makes a great dugout duo?
The art of coaching has many recipes and like any dish, it can never be an exact production. Too many ingredients make it anything but a science and it is often, at best, more like calculated gambling.
But the role of coaches has evolved exponentially through the decades, moving from an era when teams played without a powerful personality on the sidelines, to a situation where sometimes the coach is bigger than the team.
Certainly, there have been no players who have called themselves “The Special One”.
Powerful managers have existed for the last 100 years from Arsenal’s legendary Herbert Chapman to Alberto Supicci, who won the first World Cup for Uruguay in 1930, and the modern incarnations like Sir Alex Ferguson, Rinus Michaels and this country’s most successful tactician, Pitso Mosimane.
In South Africa, coaches did not exist until well into the professional era, which began at the end of the 1950s, and then for decades thereafter were just on a part-time basis.
