{"id":964237,"date":"2024-07-04T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964237"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:40:39","slug":"rhulani-mokwena-mamelodi-sundowns-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/rhulani-mokwena-mamelodi-sundowns-part-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhulani Mokwena, Mamelodi Sundowns part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">DSTV<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0Premiership champions,\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mamelodi<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Sundowns<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">, have made it official &#8211; the Brazilians and Coach of the Season,\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Rhulani<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mokwena<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/premiership-clubs-reinforce-ahead-of-new-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have parted ways<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Sundowns<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> have had a relatively successful season winning a record seventh Premiership title as well as the Inaugural Africa Football League (AFL).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">But\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mokwena<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> was released taking into account the club&#8217;s objectives and expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">He was apparently expected to win at least two domestic cup competitions and the\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">CAF<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> Champions League in addition to the premiership title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The club says the decision was not influenced by any individual associated with the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mamelodi Sundowns and Rhulani Mokwena Agree to Part Ways<\/p>\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns and Rhulani Mokwena amicably concluded an agreement bringing to an end Rhulani Mokwena\u2019s employment as Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>Sundowns wishes to express its gratitude to Rhulani Mokwena for his contribution to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U1pEnN7Bd4\">pic.twitter.com\/U1pEnN7Bd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mamelodi Sundowns FC (@Masandawana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Masandawana\/status\/1808495774520557765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sundowns&#8217; supporters have expressed mixed feelings about Mokwena&#8217;s departure from the club.<\/p>\n<p>They have warned that Mokwena&#8217;s dismissal could spell trouble for the defending champions in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>But others have welcomed his departure, saying the new coach will bring fresh ideas and new tactics to win the elusive Champions League Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Mokwena&#8217;s successor is yet to be announced. In the meantime, Manqoba Mngqithi has been appointed as the interim coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Additional reporting by Tshepiso Moche<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rulani failed with all resources at his disposal<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tshepho  \u200d\u2620\ufe0f (@TshephoSes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TshephoSes\/status\/1808733202749558796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Exactly, Sundowns is putting more money in the club to improve but if the coach fails to achieve the objectives, he must go<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Betway (@HomeAwayWin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HomeAwayWin\/status\/1808740582472495304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Greater heights  never! Losing to Esperance at Loftus was heartbreaking for me . After that game I said to myself this guy won&#8217;t finish his term at Sundowns<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DrDolittle (@Nkgopus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nkgopus\/status\/1808741143502311924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coach_rulani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@coach_rulani<\/a> thing has hurt me so much. We can\u2019t normalise black SAn coaches who have done so well for us leave under such animosity. The court battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPitso?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheRealPitso<\/a> , now this? There\u2019s nothing to celebrate here.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lekwaisang (@Motso187) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Motso187\/status\/1808731646276874656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">we will miss Rulani in the 1st 10 games<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @Magorilla (Petrus Lubisi) (@Magorilla1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Magorilla1\/status\/1808730782208258461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club says Mokwena was released taking into account the club&#8217;s objectives and expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[583,584],"class_list":["post-964237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-mamelodi-sundowns","tag-rhulani-mokwena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}