Benni McCarthy has spoken about the patience he had to endure after spending a year away from the touchline.
The 43-year-old Bafana Bafana legend was dismissed from his head coach role at Cape Town City back in November of 2019 and did not return to coaching until being appointed at the helm of AmaZulu FC this month.
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Speaking to the media after his first win in charge of Usuthu, McCarthy explained the challenges he had to endure while waiting for his second chance to return to Mzansi's top-flight.
"Being at home can kill you my friend (laughs) and in my case, with COVID and being stuck in, you want to pull your hair out, you want to just get off the couch and get off being a couch coach and rather be involved in the real deal. So, when this opportunity came, I thought the project was ideal for me," he said.
"It is a chairman that is super ambitious and a chairman (who) wants to conquer and wants to achieve things and he has to get the right people involved and who better than me to take his team forward? Bring excitement to the Zulu kingdom and I was very eager and pleased to take up that challenge and I want to put my own imprint on the team and identification, so people know.
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"You see the good job that Cape Town City is doing now, I had a part to play in that and I think I can do exactly the same or maybe more at AmaZulu. I am pleased that football has given me life back and I am going to make the utmost of this (opportunity)."
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