‘‘Even when he saw me on Friday I said to myself 'I am not your girlfriend‚ you are a coach in your country and I am a coach in my country.'
Tempers flared after Mosimane accused Ogbeide of refusing to shake his hand when the two sides met in the away leg in Enugu in the beginning of the year.
“In Nigeria there was an argument when Sundowns wanted to train early on an artificial pitch‚” he said.‘‘I asked my boys to leave the field and called Sundowns to train but they refused. I refused to shake his hands in the first match in Nigeria but it is in the past.‘‘Even when he saw me on Friday I said to myself 'I am not your girlfriend‚ you are a coach in your country and I am a coach in my country.
South Africa and Nigeria have a long-running rivalry that is often laced with tension and the fiery Sundowns coach was having none of it on Saturday‚ insisting that the match had graduated from being just a game between two clubs and had become a tussle for national pride after his charges thumped the West Africans 3-0.
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