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When Orlando Pirates announced Spaniard Jose Riveiro as their new head coach on Saturday, it was another bolt from the blue from the Buccaneers, and it would have been forgivable if Pirates fans around the world had responded with one word – ‘Who?’.The 46 year-old belongs in the school of Josef Zinnbauer, Kjell Jonevret, Kosta Papic and Jean-Yves Kerjean as a coach pulled from obscurity by chairman Irvin Khoza to take the hotseat at Pirates.

“I wasn’t a good player. Gran Peña played in the Spanish third level. I realized I wasn’t going to be good no matter how much work I did,” said Riveiro in a frank interview in 2019 withHe started his coaching career in the lower leagues in Spain before moving to Finland in 2014, to be an assistant coach at Honka FC, though that wasn’t an easy transition, particularly as Riveiro was afraid of flying. Presumably this has changed as he makes his move to Johannesburg.

He guided Inter to second in the Finnish Premier League two seasons in a row, but finished eighth in his third season, and was replaced for the 2022 campaign. “Inter Turku had been a bit lost for a few years despite having a lot of potential and one of the best budgets in the League. The challenge in this first year was to change everyone’s mentality and undertake a series of readjustments. The main thing was to build an attractive team to attract people to the stadium and, little by little, we are achieving it,” he told“Our first objective was to create an attractive team to attract people and, little by little, we are achieving it.

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