Having claimed several major domestic and continental honours with Mamelodi Sundowns, head coach Pitso Mosimane is still motivated to win more with the South African club.
Mosimane revealed the source of his inspiration following an announcement that he had signed a four-year contract extension with the current Absa Premiership champions.
The 55-year-old tactician singled out Spaniard Pep Guardiola, Scotsman Alex Ferguson, Frenchman Arsene Wenger and Italian Carlo Ancelotti as the people he looks up to.
All four of those individuals boast successful managerial careers and have won the English Premier League title.
“When you look at Pep, Klopp and other successful coaches worldwide – they have won it all and have done it for years, yet they keep going. I need to learn from them and stay motivated. I look up to Pep, Fergie, Wenger, Ancelotti – they have had massive success and I look up to these people,” Mosimane said.
“There is one common thread above the technical level they operate on: hard work.”
Mosimane said that aside from regularly challenging for domestic and international honours, he will like to win the MTN8, a tournament featuring the top 8 clubs at the close of the previous Absa Premiership season.
“I want to achieve success in the MTN 8 which remains the only trophy I have not won with Sundowns, throw it in there with the Champions League where we’ve experienced fixture clashes with the MTN 8 in the past. If you recall, we’ve previously never had a pre-season ahead of the MTN 8 – we are always a week behind. It will be very interesting to look at this differently, especially with the CAF and PSL schedules now aligned.”
Mosimane is the most successful coach in South Africa having won several domestic and international honours with Mamelodi Sundowns, including four Premier Soccer League titles, the CAF Champions League, the CAF Super Cup and the Telkom and Nedbank Cups.
In 2016, he was named African Coach of the Year at the CAF awards in Abuja, Nigeria.
