Clubs ought to respect coaches

Very few clubs have maintained coaches for over three consecutive seasons and completing a year looks to be an extraordinary affair.

While few clubs have reasons to fire coaches particularly when linked to performance of the teams, others have no apparent reasons.

Most of the reasons given for partying ways with coaches are baseless as on poor performance has just been a scapegoat to cover leadership inefficiency.

How best are our players in terms of competence and professionalism is a core question club officials ought to ask themselves.

For sure we have football players who are below par as matched to their counterparts across the continent. We do not have players who have passed through football academies on their way to join the so called professional ranks.

Poaching has been the frequently adopted habit as clubs seek instant success.When a Tanzanian club hires coach, the next point in mind is to look for good results no matter how.

The worst habit that will always keep coaches running away no matter how much money is paid to them, is interference.
Club officials as well as owners have developed this poor habit of instructing coaches on how to do their job.

Coaches are professionals and they know how best to perform their duties and none of them are there to field a weak side so as to lose a game.

Club officials or those big shots who dish out funds to recruit players and sometimes take control of coaches remuneration packages, are abusing their positions.

As long as Mr. X has money for footing bills of the club, then he is allowed to dictate terms and influence decisions. Very often coaches have complained over interference during players’ election ahead of a premiership or any other match.

A coach is sometimes instructed to field a player who is on that day out of form simply because Mr. X has just decided that. The situation is worse in those well to do top flight clubs as well as the Tanzania Football Federation, TFF.

On the average three most powerful clubs in terms of competence and liquidity, Azam, Young Africans and Simba had hired three coaches within as many years.

Club officials and their tycoons do not extend tolerance to coaches who don’t win silverware no matter how competitive is the premiership.

Ambitious as they are, still they have management crises that influence performance of the coaches particularly the issue of timely payment of their remuneration packages.

Clubs have offloaded coaches while still having their salaries unpaid for months.Firing of coaches should only be done where necessary and not anyhow as the club officials feel.