Hong Kong Football Club boss in battle to motivate players amid losing streak
Chancy Cooke says keeping players’ heads up is biggest part of his job as South African questions fixture schedule, refereeing
Football Club head coach Chancy Cooke has said that motivating his players is becoming an increasingly tough task amid an ongoing losing run.
Cooke’s young team have gone down in all four matches this season, despite being level in three of them until the 75th, 81st and 82nd minutes, respectively.
On Sunday, Football Club host a North District side that beat them 2-1 on the opening day of the campaign.
Although he questioned a “strange” fixture schedule that has put the teams on a collision course again so soon, Cooke said his side’s task was “not complicated … we have to win the game”.
Football Club lost their closing seven fixtures last season, but the summer addition of 17 players, including nine aged 21 or younger, has yet to have the desired effect.
“It’s tough at the moment. I have to get the guys going emotionally in every game after losing,” Cooke said.