DONE DEAL: Black Leopards appoint Johnny Ferreira as new head coach
As it was first reported by FARPost earlier this week, Black Leopards have appointed Johnny Ferreira as their new head coach.
The latest development mean Ferreira will be the head coach while Zimbabwean mentor Rodwell Dhlakama will be the senior coach.
The 65-year-old recently parted ways with Leopard’s rivals Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) in the Motsepe Foundation Championship.
And it did not take a week before Lidoda Duvha lured him to Malamulele to beef up their technical team.
This publication also gathered that Baroka was one of the clubs that had made an enquiry for the well-travelled coach.
“I decided not to stay at TTM and within 24 hours I made contact with Mr David Thidiela,” Ferreira explained to FARPost.
“He [Thidiela] and I go a long way back in 1992 when he was still doing the security at FNB. I have always wanted to coach Black Leopards; it has been one of my dreams. I
“I do believe it’s a sleeping giant of South African football; I do believe they can be as big as Chiefs, Pirates and Sundowns.
“We are going to try 100% to get Black Leopards into the top three as soon as possible. The chairman wants this club in the PSL; he told me many times in the last 48 hours that he wants this club in the DStv Premiership,” added Ferreira.
He doesn’t care how we get there but he wants to get back into the top league.”
JOHNNY FERREIRA ON RODWELL DHLAKAMA
‘I have given Mr Thidiela the undertaking and guarantee that I will help and guide him. We will bump heads but we will find solutions to whatever the problems are,” he said.
“As far as Rodwell and I working together, I did talk to him and I told him he must not feel threatened. He doesn’t have to feel left out.
“I am a very open-minded person by nature but we got to do what is best for the club/
Ferreira will start taking charge of the training session when Leopards return for the mid-Pre-season on Wednesday afternoon.
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