Kenya national team coach Benni McCarthy has revealed the real reasons why North African countries are often the best-performing teams on the continent.
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McCarthy gave an honest and realistic assessment of why North African countries such as Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria continue to outperform other strong football nations in the South and West.
In an interview with Sporty TV, the Harambee Stars boss pinpointed a lack of structure, poor team camps, and poor management of federations as key reasons for Southern and Western nations performing poorly.
"When you're forever shifting where the team camps, there’s no settled base,” he lamented. “That’s where Morocco and Egypt got it right," McCarthy said.
The ex-Blackburn Rovers striker added: "When you have a base, players feel at home. You control the narrative, the discipline, everything."
He explained that players have a lack of discipline when staying in different hotels instead of at a settled team base, saying it is something the North African sides have done well.
"They’ve got it right. We’ve not gotten there yet in West or Southern Africa,” he said.
McCarthy was especially critical of Nigeria and South Africa as two strong footballing nations who have underperformed.
"You can’t tell me with the players Nigeria have, they shouldn’t be top three in Africa or top 20 in the world but they’re struggling to qualify for the World Cup — it’s a shambles," he said.
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Meanwhile, Kenya is in the process of coming up with a technical centre in Machakos.
