Chippa United coach Morgan Mammila, who now refers to himself as top-eight material, says the turning point for him will now be to win the League title.
Mammila is in his second stint as coach of the DStv Premiership side. His first well with the Chilli Boys was during the 2022/23 season.
In that period, he was in charge of 14 DStv Premiership matches in which he secured five wins, and four draws and suffered five losses but was fired before the end of the season.
Mammila made a surprise return to the club at the beginning of the current season. The Chilli Boys are currently seventh on the log after accumulating 13 points in nine matches.
MORGAN MAMMILA BELIEVES ONLY THE LEAGUE TITLE WILL MAKE A STATEMENT
He was asked what would be his turning point in his short coaching career at the launch of the Carling Knockout Cup on Tuesday.
“There is no turning point, I have just started, this is me,” Mammila told Journalists.
“A turning point is when you have started a long time and you did not win. I have just started my friend, what you see, that’s me. The turning point is winning the league for me.
“You can see I am a top eight material, whether you like it or not, I am a top eight material. It’s not me who is saying that, it’s the stats that are saying that. It’s not me, it’s the stats,” explained Mammila.
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“So the turning point is winning the league for me because if I start and be in the top eight, the turning point means it’s something better, which is lifting something. Although, Carling [Cup] it would be nice to be the first coach to lift it.
“I know you guys respect a person when you win something, so I want to be like Benni [McCarthy]. Benni came here not having coached anything and he won a Cup. It has been proven that you don’t need to coach for 10 years to win something,” he said.
Chippa United have been drawn against Stellenbosch in the last 16 of the Carling Knockout Cup.
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