THE HOTTEST SEAT IN THE BUSINESS

Orlando Pirates have lived up to the billing that the club’s coaching job is the most volatile in the country considering the number of changes that have been made through the years.

It has remained a mystery what it takes to keep the job at Pirates considering that coaches who won the league, like Gordon Igesund, Roy Barreto and Ruud Krol, all found themselves pushed out. Igesund felt the wrath of influential people at the club, who orchestrated his way out by using fans to intimidate him, the same way Barreto was also pushed into walking out.

Krol brought a seven-year wait for silverware to end by winning the treble in his last season in charge but that was not enough to earn him a new deal.

Those that have won trophies while in charge at the club, like Vladimir Vermezovic, Josef Zinnbauer and Julio Leal, have found themselves not enjoying the same praise as those that left without landing silverware like Kosta Papic, Milutin Sredojevic, Roger de Sa, Eric Tinkler and Ted Dumitru.