Major David Bright

David Bright (13 June 1956 – 25 January 2021) was a Motswana football coach. Quotes If you can give me P10, 000 I will stay and coach. Never! I can’t be reduced to that, I’m a coach and my dream is to coach in South Africa someday. I was earning P10, 000 and Collen Rowe was on P100, 000 per month. The difference was ridiculous. I caused a stir about the issue and former parliamentary legislator Bothogile Tshireletso had to ask the question in Parliament. She was also not happy that a foreigner earns ten times my earnings, and my team was doing better than his. It started to sink in, that I’m working with colours. I had never worked with them before. It was a different ball game altogether. That team didn’t have quality players. It was ‘skop vorentoe’, kick the ball forward. With Mogogi Gabonamong as one of the best players there. I played 5-4-1 with a conversational 3-5-2 on attack, I was very fortunate that there was AFCON Finals in January and that gave me some time to do mini preseason in the transitional period. All the other teams were also in the break. I drilled my players to understand what I wanted. From there we went 10 games unbeaten”, bragged Bright. We were on the verge of winning the league but our squad was thin. Erwin Isaacs had health issues. Coincidentally, at the beginning of 2008/09, we played against Bay United and walloped them. That very same season, Bay United relegated to First Division. The man gave me R10, 000 immediately as pocket money. I was flattered and left for PE. First leg was in PE and second leg in Tembisa, both ended in 0 – all draw, It was tough. I just had to have faith on Marumo, who I knew was not the best when it comes to penalties, but faith was the only way out. Though, I could have substituted for Mayala but I didn’t. As expected, Carlos didn’t save even a single penalty. We went into sudden death, Cosmos scored their first penalty and Kopano Sekgamela missed ours, that was it for us. I have never seen a ground so small, rocky and with red soil like that. Thidiela, played his tricks on us and I didn’t know how PSL approved such a ground. I had no choice but to play. There was no direction. The coach would come with no training plan and I didn’t subscribe to that. I quit the job after two months. We went to half time leading 2 – 0. David Thidiela, club owner, came from his seat and met me as I was going to the dressing room. It was strange for me. He whispered to me and said I should bring a striker in a position of an attacking midfielder so we can score 10 goals, But Bright didn’t do that. Thidiela came down and called my name, I refused to go, but asked Joel Masutha to go and talk to the old man in their language because I won’t do what he said. I sat down and kept quiet, Our opponents pulled a goal back, second goal, third goal. And we lost 3 – 2. I looked at the stand to check where Thidiela was, I couldn’t find him, if I could have, I don’t know what could have happened. We lost the grip and I was wasted in my house having some wine. But I had my resignation letter ready, instead of having the hearing I presented my resignation letter. Khama Wanted Me To Work At His Farm – Coach Bright, Botswana Gazette, May 14 2020 We are playing South Africa and they are our enemy! We need to mobilise people to come and support the Zebras in Francistown [for tomorrow’s match]. We’ve been given five days to prepare. At this level, you cannot moan and demand more days. Admittedly, three weeks would have been sufficient, but international football affords you very little time to prepare. Therefore, I need soldiers to hit the ground running. I can assure you that we are going to compete. It has been a very long time since the Zebras defeated South Africa, but my boys are ready. Zebras’ coach on warpath, Mail&Guardian, July 14 2017 When we came in, we found out that most of the players who were in the squad were development players and we cannot develop at the senior national team level. We also observed that the team was inexperienced as it was evident as in the past two or three years they have failed to qualify for any major tournament. We never achieved anything with these young boys. We are not foreigners, we are locals and we know our players. We know a certain player looking at their experience and what they can offer for the team. Talk Talk returns as Bright defends selection,Mmegi, May 28 2017 I was happy with the performance of the team overall. We tried different combinations and approaches. The team is coming along okay but we need to work on the fitness of the players because I don’t think they’re at the level I want them to be. Bright satisfied with his charges,, Sunday Standard (September 20 2012) External links David Bright (football manager) Category:Football (soccer) coaches Category:1956 births Category:2021 deaths