Rulani Mokwena reacts to Coach of the Month accolade in Egypt

The South African tactician picked up the first individual gong of the campaign following a perfect start with the former league champions, who have won all four matches, collecting 12 points while scoring seven goals and conceding none.

Speaking to SABC Sport, Mokwena reflected on the recognition. 

"Yes, of course it's a worthy achievement, I think maybe it has even surpassed our expectations. The similar start we had in Algeria which was the best start in Algerian football in history and now we have achieved a similar start in Egypt with Pyramids, which is Pyramids' best start to the season in its history,” Mokwena said.

“So, we are really proud of this as a technical team and of course I always say this, I'm not really a big fan of these individual awards and these coach of the month awards because no coach has ever scored a goal, no coach has ever kept a clean sheet and no coach has ever made an assist."

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Mokwena added that the accolade belongs just as much to his technical staff as it does to him given the collective effort. 

"We work together as a team of coaches and I've got an incredible staff with me. You know coach Wendell [Robinson], coach Themba [Sinethemba Badela], we have coach Gedo [Mohamed Nagi] who's an Egyptian legend and one that is helping us a lot behind the scenes about the players and about the league,” the coach added. 

“We have Said [el-Nahas] who's an analyst, more of an assistant coach. We are in that space where we have a very strong technical team and now technical teams are the one that works behind the scenes to help to prepare the team. 

“We have a very good physical team with coach Ramdan [Mohammed] who was with me in Morocco and Wydad and we have coach Foued [Cherait]."