Pitso Mosimane

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Pitso John Mosimane (born July 26, 1964 in Kagiso, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) former player and coach currently an assistant to Carlos Alberto Parreira who is the manager of the South Africa National Football Team. He is one of the longest serving and highly-rated coaches in South African soccer having won several major trophies with Supersport United in recent years.

In December 2006, he was banned for 2 months after verbally abusing an assistant referee in a league game. The club's goalkeeper Andre Arendse, who was also involved in the incident, received a ban as well.

"Jingles", who acted as assistant coach to Ted Dumitru during the ill-fated 2006 African Nations Cup campaign of South Africa in Egypt, and later also worked as a caretaker coach until Parreira was appointed.