Pitso Mosimane feels he has unfinished business with Bafana Bafana and hints that he might return to the top job for a second stint after his two-year tenure between 2010 and 2012.
Mosimane was part of Bafana’s 2010 FIFA World Cup coaching staff led by Carlos Alberto Parreira and was elevated to the hot seat after the global spectacle.
‘Jingles’ has enjoyed success across the African continent with Mamelodi Sundowns and Al Ahly where he won three CAF Champions League titles paired with multiple DStv Premiership crowns.
“I’m at a point in my career where I coach anywhere, as long as it is proper and the project is good. I don’t have the emotions of coming back. I will coach any team in South Africa,” Mosimane said on GameON.
"Bafana? I can come back later. I think we should accept and be honest that we should not disturb it because Hugo Broos is doing well."
Mosimane was last in charge of Saudi Arabia outfit Abha FC, who were relegated from the Saudi Pro League at the end of last season. ‘Jingles’ is in no rush to return to the dugout, and when he does – it will be on his terms.
“Currently I’m unemployed, I don’t have a team. I can have a team tomorrow if I want because there are a lot of proposals but it must suit me in my career now. I can’t just go anywhere because somebody says please come,” said the former Sundowns mentor.
The former Ahly coach has set out his ambitions for potential suitors, insisting that the vision of whichever team signs him must be parallel with reality.
“I can’t go somewhere where someone says we can agree financially but then I go to a place where I have no chance to win the Champions League or the league.
“If I go to a team, it must be a project that [where they say] ‘we want you to come and build this team to this level’, then it is okay.
“But if I go to a team that has no chance to win the Champions League then they say to me I need to win the Champions League because they can afford to pay your salary… no I don’t need that.
“I’m at a point in my career where I choose what’s right and do it because I have to pay the bills,” Mosimane concluded.
