On Saturday, former Orlando Pirates striker coach Scott Chickelday discussed his experience working with the club’s forwards and revealed his preferred attacker. Chickelday had a short stint at Pirates, where he improved their goalscoring record tremendously in just over a month’s stay.
The English finishing coach, who is back in the United Kingdom and expressed his desire to return to the PSL if there is a club interested in his services, said Kermit Erasmus is a quality striker but lacked the service to score regularly.
“He (Erasmus) did score a goal while I was out there, I was lucky to work with Kermit quite a bit (when) I was there and I just think with Kermit, the sort of striker he is, he missed the right service,” Chickelday said on SAFM Sport.
The former Tottenham Hotspur coach also confessed that he “loved” working with striker Terrence Dzvukamanja, whom he described as the best header of the ball in the DStv Premiership.
“But look, don’t take anything away from Pirates, I know he was going through a bad patch at the time. I loved Dzvukamanja, I think he’s an amazing player,” he said. “He’s probably one of the… I might get in trouble for saying this, but one of the best headers of the ball in that league when you see him in training how he heads the ball, he’s phenomenal.
“I don’t think I’ve seen him miss a header and his last two goals for Pirates have both been headers and he works tirelessly hard. When I first got out there, he was getting a little bit of bad press and I couldn’t understand it because he wasn’t the player I was seeing in training,” he added.
The 48-year old coach also revealed that head coach Jose Riveiro is a big admirer of the Zimbabwean attacker and suggested that he just lacked confidence when he was not playing before his arrival at the club.
“To be fair, Jose Riveiro, I know he’s a big fan of ‘Dzvuka’, he likes him. You know with some players it’s confidence, when you’re playing and you’re not scoring, you get a little bit of pressure from the press and everything else it can become a lonely place when you’re on that pitch,” he said.
