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Pio Nogueira is the main brazilian players who made history in South Africa football. We talked to him about the African football, where he has vast experience playing and coaching.
What are you doing now?
Pio Nogueira : Currently I am the Executive Director of a company dubbed Pivo Advisory Sport Ltda. in São Paulo. I left the Santos FC, from Angola in 2009. During six years we have won the 2006 championship’s second division in Angola. The entire base of the first team today was formed by me.
How do you analyse the development of professional league football in South Africa?
Actually there has been a growth in marketing as well as investment in Football.
When the generation of Fish, Moshoeu, Radebe, Bartlett, McCarthy emerged in 90’s many people thought that South African football would become a reference in the continent, but later generations not had the same level. Is there any problems in working with young players in South Africa?
Pio Nogueira : Today the South African youth teams is growing without the fundamental parameters of football, these factors are influencing the development of South African athletes. The Mark Fish’s generation emerged from a work based among coaches who were football players with high quality and the training base with transparency. Currently we have college students who are teaching in football academies, I have nothing against them, but the correct is merge of teachers and ex-football players..
Usually football associations from Africa prefers foreign coaches, but they are being blamed for the ugly and pragmatic football of African teams. How do you analyse this issue?
Pio Nogueira : Foreign coaches in Africa lives in big pressure. Not is easy to be coach in Africa.
The football played in Angola and South Africa are differents?
Pio Nogueira : Sure! The South African football is based on speed, not on fundamentals of football, it is clear that the players today needs to be a better athlete, but south africa should unite with strongest football centers.
