No character, no experience, says Tanzania coach in brutal assessment

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No character, no experience, says Tanzania coach in brutal assessment
By Reuters
23 hours ago

By Brian Homewood

CAIRO, June 28 (Reuters) - Tanzania's first Africa Cup of Nations participation for 39 years came to a premature end because the team lacked character and experience, coach Emmanuel Amunike said in a brutally honest analysis.


Coaches nowadays generally steer clear of criticising their own team for fear of 'losing the dressing room' but the former Sporting, Barcelona and Nigeria player had no such concerns as he offered a withering assessment of his players' efforts.
Tanzania's 3-2 defeat to Kenya on Thursday, after twice going in front, meant they became the first team to be eliminated from the 24-team tournament where only eight teams exit at the group stage.
The use of the head-to-head rule means they are guaranteed to finish bottom of Group C after losing their first two games.
"If you do not know how to manage your game, you pay the price," Amunike said. "There were a lot of crazy things going on and we committed a lot of mistakes. Our positioning was wrong, our marking was wrong."
Amunike was miffed that Kenya scored their second equalising goal with a near post header from a set piece.
"That is something we have practised over and over again... but players are players," he said. "As a coach you stand on the sidelines and you are helpless... there is no character in the team. We lack the experience.
"It's an eye opener for Tanzanian football -- the truth is we are not in a position to compete."
Amunike, who has had a low-key managerial career, took over as Tanzania coach last August and became a national hero after guiding them to the finals, albeit from a weak qualifying group where their rivals were Uganda, Lesotho and Cape Verde.
Only three members of the squad are based in Europe -- Blackpool's Adi Yussuf, who has spent his career roaming the lower divisions of the English league, Racing Genk's Mbwana Samatta and Faridi Mussa, who plays in the lower tier of the Spanish league.
Fourteen members of the squad are based in the Tanzanian league, something Amunike said was holding them back.
"It's important that the players must be able to interpret the game, know what to do when they have the ball and don't have the ball," he said.
"The players need exposure to stronger competition, in a place where they can grow and compete with other players in Africa.
"I'm not being harsh, just realistic." (Writing by Brian Homewood; editing by Sudipto Gangul

MAANA YA NO CHARACTER
No character” =

1. One lacks consistent principles and ethical standards.
2. One's behavior is determined by convenience
3. If one espouses any personal beliefs or morals, these are secondary to peer pressure or momentary profit.
4. One has no character if one does not do “the right thing” (either according to oneself or culture, depending upon the person) because one wishes to avoid the consequences of abiding by what one knows to be “right”.

 

[MKWEPA KODI]

Spika ndugai alisema ni sababu ya lishe duni, wapewe chakula bora, pia alisema kocha afukuzwe kazi, tuajiri kocha mwingine, huo ndiyo msimamo wa spika wa bunge la Tanzania

 

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Call spade a spade...

 

[comte]

No character, no experience, says Tanzania coach in brutal assessment
By Reuters
23 hours ago

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By Brian Homewood

CAIRO, June 28 (Reuters) - Tanzania's first Africa Cup of Nations participation for 39 years came to a premature end because the team lacked character and experience, coach Emmanuel Amunike said in a brutally honest analysis.


Coaches nowadays generally steer clear of criticising their own team for fear of 'losing the dressing room' but the former Sporting, Barcelona and Nigeria player had no such concerns as he offered a withering assessment of his players' efforts.
Tanzania's 3-2 defeat to Kenya on Thursday, after twice going in front, meant they became the first team to be eliminated from the 24-team tournament where only eight teams exit at the group stage.
The use of the head-to-head rule means they are guaranteed to finish bottom of Group C after losing their first two games.
"If you do not know how to manage your game, you pay the price," Amunike said. "There were a lot of crazy things going on and we committed a lot of mistakes. Our positioning was wrong, our marking was wrong."
Amunike was miffed that Kenya scored their second equalising goal with a near post header from a set piece.
"That is something we have practised over and over again... but players are players," he said. "As a coach you stand on the sidelines and you are helpless... there is no character in the team. We lack the experience.
"It's an eye opener for Tanzanian football -- the truth is we are not in a position to compete."
Amunike, who has had a low-key managerial career, took over as Tanzania coach last August and became a national hero after guiding them to the finals, albeit from a weak qualifying group where their rivals were Uganda, Lesotho and Cape Verde.
Only three members of the squad are based in Europe -- Blackpool's Adi Yussuf, who has spent his career roaming the lower divisions of the English league, Racing Genk's Mbwana Samatta and Faridi Mussa, who plays in the lower tier of the Spanish league.
Fourteen members of the squad are based in the Tanzanian league, something Amunike said was holding them back.
"It's important that the players must be able to interpret the game, know what to do when they have the ball and don't have the ball," he said.
"The players need exposure to stronger competition, in a place where they can grow and compete with other players in Africa.
"I'm not being harsh, just realistic." (Writing by Brian Homewood; editing by Sudipto Gangul

mhhh

 

[mkale]

kocha kichwa maji.. wachezaj vichwa maji vil vil.

 

[Laki Si Pesa]

wachezaji wetu bado sana kiwango kidogo sana

 

[Teamanaconda]

Yani mimi siamini katika uzoefu,hivi wenzetu Madagascar wanauzoefu gan?wanashiriki kwa mara ya kwanza lakini mpaka sasa wanapoint 4,sasa huo uzoefu sijui wameutoa wapi?sisi tukubali mpira hatuwezi na tuwekeze kwenye michezo mingine tu,kuna mchezo wa bao,draft,karata.

 

[Frank Wanjiru]

wachezaji wetu bado sana kiwango kidogo sana

Angemwingiza Bashite afunge goals

 

[Tate Mkuu]

Anataka kujitoa kwenye lawama wakati na yeye anahusika timu yetu kuvurunda! Kwanza ukifuatilia uteuzi wake, utagundua alipewa hiyo nafasi kishkaji tu na akina Kidau kwa sababu ya kuwa mkufunzi wa CAF.

Hana historia yoyote ile ya maana kwenye ufundishaji wa mpira ukiondoa hiyo ya kuipa ubingwa timu yao ya vijana. Tangu akabidhiwe timu yetu ya Taifa, alishindwa kutengeneza kikosi cha kwanza cha timu! zaidi tu ya kufanya majaribio kwa wachezaji na kupangua kikosi kila mechi na hivyo wachezaji kushindwa kuzoeana na hivyo kucheza kitimu!

Pia upangaji wake wa timu wakati fulani ulituchanganya mashabiki! Amekua ni muumini wa soka la kujilinda zaidi na si kushambulia.

Amekua na uteuzi usioeleweka wa wachezaji wa timu ya Taifa! Mfano wachezaji kama Mwantika na Ally Sonso kwenye timu zao walikua hawapati muda mwingi wa kucheza! lakini yeye ndiyo walikua chaguo lake la kwanza! Huku akiwaacha wachezaji wenye uzoefu kama Abdi Banda kwa sababu zisizoeleweka; Hivi vyote vilichangia kuathiri safu yetu ya ulinzi!

Pia timu kukosa viungo wachezeshaji kama Salum Abubakary, Mazamiru Yassin, Hassan Dilunga, nk na kujaza viungo wakabaji, vyote hivi haviwezi kimuondoa kocha kwenye lawama maana timu ilikosa kabisa muunganiko na hivyo kushuhudia washambuliaji wetu kama John Boco, Samatta na Msuva wakirudi nyuma kutafuta mpira!

All in all, hatuna budi kuwekeza vilivyo kwenye soka letu! Na pia Amunike atupishe tu na badala yake aletwe kocha mwenye historia ya kufundisha soka kwenye ngazi ya klabu au timu ya Taifa na iliyofanya vizuri kwenye mashindano mbalimbali.

 

[Njemba Soro.]

AMUNIKE ANA WAZIMU??