Phikwe coaches blame constituency league for falling standards

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Several football coaches in the Selebi-Phikwe region have attributed the low quality football in their region to the constituency league. This emerged in a consultative meeting held on Thursday between the Selebi-Phikwe Regional Football Association and the coaches.

One of the coaches, Baetsi Motlogelwa of Phikwe Aces highlighted that a significant number of talented players join the league for the money, noting that this consequently destroys their careers as the tournament does not have skilled coaches to nurture their talent.

“We had one skilled and promising player from our team who did that. This is really a great concern to us because this league is destroying young players’ bright future,” he said.

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