How Khoza offered Palacios the Pirates job: ‘Do you want to coach the team – yes or no?’

Augusto Palacios found out about the link to being Orlando Pirates’ caretaker-coaching job through a phone call from his wife‚ then was offered it by chairman Irvin Khoza in the team meeting to announce head coach Muhsin Ertugral’s resignation. Bucs’ development head and new caretaker Palacios said he had not interacted with Ertugral – who resigned on Wednesday morning after an embarrassing 6-1 league defeat against SuperSport United in Nelspruit on Tuesday night – during the head coach’s four-...