Following Orlando Pirates midfielder Patrick Maswanganyi's tendency to showboat, Pitso Mosimane has revealed why the tricks have to be left behind in SA football.
There is a culture in South Africa where skillful players are the most celebrated by the crowd, which, in turn, can influence how a player behaves on the pitch.
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Maswanganyi has gained a reputation of dribbling or showboating even when it's not necessary and usually gets applause from the crowd - that's if he doesn't lose the ball.
Usually when teams are leading comfortably, there is also the tendency to showboat, a culture entrenched in local soccer.
Mosimane, who as a coach has come up against superstars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Reyad Mahrez, and N'Golo Kante in the Saudi Arabia Pro League, says SA players should start focusing more on scoring.
"Nothing is the same as South Africa. South Africa has got its own flavour. People like to say Brazil is nearly the same. A little bit, but we've got our own flair, our own way of manipulating the ball. We know how to play," Mosimane said on The Dan Corder Show on eNCA.
"South African players come out of tight spaces where you never thought a player can come out, but we have to accept that the easiest part, when you're facing the goalkeeper to score, we struggle. We do the difficult part, but the easiest part we don't do.
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"And probably, that's the difficult part because that makes you who you are. You cannot talk about Lionel Messi, the way he dribbles or manipulates the ball without scoring, you cannot talk about Vinicius Junior or Mbappe without scoring. So, we need to score a lot in South Africa," he added.
Maswanganyi has hit the ground running at Bafana Bafana with suggestions from experts that he can be even a better player at club level if he would focus on going forward more, scoring and assisting than finding pleasure on climbing on top of soccer balls to entertain the crowd.