MaMkhize responds to claims of ‘ordering coaches’ to play Andile Mpisane

“I don’t know if people do understand that Andile is the one who brought me into soccer…”

These were the words from Shauwn “MaMkhize” Mkhize trying to convince the naysayers that her son Andile Mpisane isn’t playing football as a hobby, but takes his football career seriously.

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The club’s chairperson was an unused substitute in AM’s 1-0 defeat to Richards Bay FC earlier this month.

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Many people concluded that the coaches had no choice but to include the 21-year-old because it was an order from the top management.

And apart from that, there have been claims that MaMkhize interferes with the coaching.

However, she says coaches have full control over who to play and they only give her a plan for every game.

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SHAUN MKHIZE DENIES INTERFERENCE IN COACHING

“I’m not on the training everyday, so I can’t be involved on who is going to be played,” MaMkhize said in an interview with Sports Night Amplified on Metro FM.

“But as the president of the club the coaches, they tell me who is going to be playing, they tell me, they discuss with me that these are the people we are planning to play.

“We gonna try this on training, if it works, it works, if it doesn’t work we’ll come back and report and that’s how involved I am.”

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MaMkhize went on to emphasise that the decision to play or bring Mpisane on as a substitute doesn’t come from her.

MAMKHIZE ON ANDILE MPISANE’S LOVE FOR FOOTBALL

Asked if she tells the coaches to play Mpisane she said, “It is sorely straight from the coaches.”

“You know there is one thing people don’t know about Andile, as much as he is my son, he goes to the training like every player [to be] part of the plan,” MaMkhize added.

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“He trains with the team and I don’t know if people they do understand that Andile is the one who brought me into soccer because of his love for football.

“You know I used to go out there and [cheer] him [up] when he was playing for AmaZulu as back as in then, so he loves soccer and he plays it.”

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