MEDIA ‘ASSASSINATING’ COACHES – ANTHONY MDLULI

MANZINI – “We must stand up to control the media.” These were the words of former Sihlangu assistant and interim head coach, Anthony Mdluli, yesterday during a National Coaches Workshop held at the Caritas Centre in Manzini.

In his opening remarks, the chairman of the Eswatini Football Coaches Association (SFCA), urged attending coaches to control the media and said they must dispute and condemn any negative things directed to local coaches.
“We must unite to fight against the negative things published by the media because any coach may fall victim to the media,” said the coach.
He urged other coaches never to go public to criticise a fellow colleague and labelled such as joining the media to ‘assassinate’ another.

shoddy

“When I was the interim coach of the national team you would hear others say we were doing a shoddy job as the team should be winning. They, however, spoke without any knowledge of the mandate given to the coach,” said the chairman.
He added that they needed to take extra action to control the media as he highlighted that they were too lenient.

Action

He said legal action could be taken against the media, when it referred to them on their personal capacity when the subject matter is that of a coach,” he said.
“Let us monitor the media. It is not that we do not need them but they should publish objective instead of subjective information,” said Mdluli.
He said personally, he would never approach the media and go public with the challenges he encountered while he headed the national team despite that they existed.
“The media must write accurate information,” he said.

The chairman said he noted at times when the media would start referring to him as a teacher instead of a coach as the subject matter was football.
“This is offside. Why refer to a Young Buffaloes player as a soldier or Green Mamba’s player as a warder?” he enquired rhetorically.
He encouraged his colleagues to stand up and fight but said it was unfortunate that others used it to climb up the ladder.

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