Fans give coach yellow card

ssed dismay over his appointment, saying he has not track record of coaching top-flight football.
Gorowa (36) played for Dynamos and Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe. He signed a three-year contract for Swallows, which finished third in the Premier League this season. Swallows is home to former Dynamos wonder kid and national team striker, Evans Gwekwerere.
Gorowa has performed credibly in subsidiary coaching roles for Ajax for a number of years since an enforced retirement through injury as a player.
“Ian who?” was not an uncommon reaction among Moroka Swallows supporters to the appointment.
“We once boasted the best and most charismatic coaches in the country like Mario ‘The Godfather’ Tuani, who could produce the best teams in the land,” lamented one supporter in Kick-off magazine. “But those days seem long over.”
Kick-off magazine reported that supporters are questioning why someone who has never even been the coach of a First Division team should be appointed the head of operations at a club with the stature of Swallows or is this simply a reflection of the diminishing stature of Swallows?
Another factor which has irked those in the Birds’ aviary is the decision to give Gorowa a three-year contract when he has yet to prove himself at top level as a coach.
And the insinuation has further been made that Cape Town-based managing-director Leon Prins and his staff are “under the impression that Swallows are a Cape Town club, instead of having their roots imbedded in Soweto”.
“That’s the impression you get judging by the appointments and signings from the Cape,” claim the supporters.
Gorowa, nevertheless, said all the right things after proclaiming he was “delighted to be given the task of leading one of South Africa biggest and oldest clubs that carries a lot of history behind it”.
“I would also like to call on all Swallows fans to give me a chance to do my job,” he was quoted saying last week. “Just like the fans, I want to bring back the good old days when the Birds stood tall in Soweto alongside Chiefs and Pirates.
“My first intention is to play an exciting brand of soccer,” said Gorowa. “But these things don’t happen overnight.
“I believe in my capabilities and I believe I can transform Swallows into one of the most feared and respected teams in the PSL,” he added.
“All I ask is some patience and support from the supporters.”