Abdeslam Ouaddou

“I think it gives the opportunity for the coach to see all his team in preparing for the World Cup”

“I don't want to come back on what happened in the AFCON, but they did their best.”

“I hope he finds joy there, even without the fans. There’s huge pressure from the club owners on the foreign players.”

“There aren’t many supporters like here in South Africa; some stadiums are empty.”

“He’s going abroad; it’s not easy. He will have to be mentally strong,”

“I think if he listened to me last season, he would have been at the World Cup, definitely.”

“I was not happy with how he was training, but I was happy with how he returned [from the World Cup break into pre-season]…fresh, in every training, full of energy”

“In training, I always said the job doesn’t start in the game—it starts in training at the start of the week.”

“It took a bit of time for him to understand what I expect of him,”