# Mandla Ncikazi’s trophy cabinet with Orlando Pirates

Orlando Pirates have officially announced the departure of Abdeslam Ouaddou‘s assistant Mandla Ncikazi. Ncikazi had been linked with a possible exit following his absence from the bench for a number of games now. Ouaddou had attributed Ncikazi’s absence to a surgery that the coach recently had, but the writing was always on the wall. Subsequent to that, reports surfaced that Golden Arrows were interested in taking Ncikazi back following a series of poor results under the tutelage of Pitso Dladla. Dladla, though, has maintained that he is still in charge of Arrows and that he still has back

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