Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro has lifted the lid on the life of a coach after winning a game in anticipation of the MTN8 final against AmaZulu.
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Riveiro has reached the MTN8 final at his first attempt at the club and although he admitted that the satisfaction of winning would be nice, he suggested that he won't get carried away should they lift the title on Saturday.
"Personally, to win games obviously it means a big satisfaction for me to see my players, all the people around me happy and satisfied as well," Riveiro said in a pre-match press conference.
"With the way we try to do the things in the end is the most important, find the way, do you want to do the things to win the games, there are many ways and all are reasonable and acceptable.
"We have our own and when you manage to get a good result in one game doing the things in your own way the personal satisfaction is nice," he said.
"There's two, three hours after a victory for a coach, which is something I cannot even explain (to) you, it takes two, three hours (to get over a win), after (that) you're thinking the next one already.
"When you have a chance to play the final, which is in the end not mandatory but it's one of the things you're expected, people expect from you when you're working at a club like Pirates that you have the chance to be frequently in the decisive games in the finals," he continued.
"That's something we're looking for from the beginning and this is the first chance we have to play for something and we managed to be there, we're very happy that we have the chance to be there on Saturday with the possibility to get a trophy."
There was a suggestion that Usuthu could be more hungry in the final given that they have not won any trophy in 46 years but the Spanish mentor says those psychological factors do not matter in a cup final.
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Riveiro made the example of Mamelodi Sundowns, who remain hungry for more titles despite their winning streak for consecutive seasons.
"I think the approach is totally wrong, if a team like Sundowns is collecting trophies every season it means they're still hungry, that's something very difficult to keep it," Riveiro said.
"And about AmaZulu, imagine one team going into the final and saying, 'Ah, it's okay to be here, it doesn't matter the result'?, everyone is going to the final with the same thing to lose, which is a trophy, it's a title.
"It's 90 minutes, eleven against eleven, so don't tell me about favourites or teams that are more hungry than the other because it's not true," he insisted.
"If someone feels or thinks like that it's because they don't know how a football player thinks about a game like this," he added.
