Nelspruit - Muhsin Ertugral was unveiled as the new coach of Mpumalanga Black Aces, the club confirmed on Tuesday.
The coach has been given a two-year contract with the club.
Ertugal, 55, has had three stints as coach of Ajax Cape Town in the last decade and also took charge of Kaizer Chiefs from 1999 to 2003.
Club Chairman Mario Morfou said the highly experienced Ertugral was the right man to spearhead the team’s technical objectives.
“We have undertaken a thorough selection process and we all agreed that Muhsin is head and shoulders above the rest,” said Morfou.
“Our league is extremely competitive hence our decision to appoint a coach of Ertugral’s calibre because of his comprehensive knowledge of South African Football. Ertugral is a tactician of note and his high- performance coaching expertise relating to the youth is in line with the club’s vision. The core of our technical vision is to achieve great success and the head coach is central to that plan.”
Ertugral had already put a plan together for his charges ahead of the new season.
“We have already completed and submitted our two months plan to management,” said Ertugral.
“We will commence our pre-season training on the 8th of June 2015. Our aim is to compete while playing an attractive and entertaining style of football and we will in the process introduce youngsters in order to grow our own base of players. We believe that there is no future without the youth,” said Ertugral.
Aces demoted current coach Clive Barker to their youth development after a poor run in the Premiership in March.
Jacob Sakala was the interim coach until the end of the season where Aces finished in 10th position on the log.
Ertugral said at his appointment he would make a number of changes to the team for next season.
“There will be quite a lot of changes, but I believe in youngsters, I will not be going out and signing like Sundowns,” said Ertugral.
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