Coach Owen Da Gama has provided an update on his future following Magesi FC's sudden turnaround in their Betway Premiership standings.
Da Gama joined the Limpopo club at the end of December 2024, and in less than three months, he has slighltly moved them out of the relegation zone.
He replaced Clinton Larsen, who left the club unexpectedly after interim coaches Jackie Ledwaba and Papi Zothwane struggled to fill Larsen's big shoes.
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Magesi FC is currently in 12th position on the log table with seven matches remaining.
"Negotiations for a new contract have not yet started. We will discuss that at the end of the season. Whether I'm here or not is entirely up to the club management," Da Gama tells KickOff.
"I'm not even thinking about that. My whole focus is just to do the best I can. I signed a short-term contract for six months, so we will see what happens. The mandate was to get the team out of the relegation zone, but there's still a long way to go with seven games left. We're not fooling ourselves into thinking too big.
"We will take one game at a time and see where God places us. What's happening isn't a sudden turnaround, we've been working very hard to get the team right—it's a process.
"We're still not where we want to be, we're halfway there, but it requires hard work and proper planning. We've made mistakes, learned from them, and fixed them. The boys are responding very well. However, there's still a long way to go," the coach added.
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"Football is a game of mistakes. The most important thing is to learn from those mistakes.
"It was very difficult in the beginning when I joined because it takes time to understand the players' characters. I had many one-on-one conversations with them to understand how they think and their lifestyles, and from there, we started working together.
"I had to dig deep to understand where the problems lay. The style of play they were using wasn't my type of game, they were employing a low block, which was too expansive for my approach.
When I took over, Magesi were the team that conceded the most goals from outside the box. I changed that around, and we began to play a different system, which is now paying off."