Matshelane Mamabolo says that Vladimir Vermezovic was never the right man for the Orlando Pirates coaching job.
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Granted he won them the Nedbank Cup last season, but Vladimir Vermezovic was never the right man for the Orlando Pirates coaching job.
And his resignation yesterday would not have come as a surprise for the discerning soccer follower.
The Serbian handed in his resignation following Tuesday night’s 2-1 home defeat by Steve Komphela’s Maritzburg United after which disgruntled Buccaneers fans pelted him with an assortment of missiles while chanting “VV must go”.
And with good reason too, the former Kaizer Chiefs coach having failed to take Pirates to the next level after Roger de Sa had turned them into a slick machine that contested cup finals locally and on the continent.
When Pirates won the country’s own version of the FA Cup at the end of last season, it was generally agreed that the victory was more down to the players’ desire to collect some silverware after three failed attempts rather than the coach’s inspirational leadership.
Club chairman Irvin Khoza said in a statement that assistant coach Eric Tinkler will be in charge for the remainder of the season. Tinkler, who had also fulfilled the same role when De Sa left, gets the hardest start to his reign with Saturday’s Soweto derby against league pace-setters Kaizer Chiefs at the FNB Stadium.
A Pirates insider said yesterday that VV was just not managing to get through to the players.
“The players will probably be the most relieved that he is gone,” the insider said. “It just wasn’t working hey. The players didn’t want him because he had a very strange mentality that they didn’t get.”
One of those that apparently didn’t get along with the coach was fullback Thabo Matlaba who VV incredibly dropped for his first derby.
It was a shocking decision at the time, the Serb instead preferring to use Ayanda Gcaba and his decision back-firing badly as the defender had a nightmare of a match in the 1-0 defeat to Amakhosi.
What was more shocking though was the initial decision by Khoza to bring back Vermezovic to the country following his spell with Chiefs.
Though he brought trophies (the Telkom Knockout and the Nedbank Cup) to the Amakhosi cabinet, VV never really endeared himself to the club’s fans who generally questioned his selection policy.
And when he left Chiefs to return home to Serbia where he joined his former club Partizan, there was more rejoicing than disappointment at Naturena.
But Khoza brought him back and despite suffering a defeat in his first match which happened to be the derby, Vermezovic presided over the Nedbank triumph that saw the Buccaneers end the season on a high note.
The pre-season Carling Black Label triumph, a competition he had mocked as a joke when he was at Chiefs, saw him add another silverware to the cabinet.
But it was then downhill from there on, Pirates failing to win any of their first three matches and losing to Chiefs in the MTN8 final. What got to most Pirates fans was his continued tinkering with the team, VV looking like a coach who didn’t know how to set up his team.
He changed the team again on Tuesday night with Komphela saying after his team’s win that he felt for the Serb: “If he had won it would have been ‘well done coach for making the changes ahead of the Derby’. It’s different now with the loss.” - The Star
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