Pics – Afcon coaches workwear

The executive look: Coach Gordon Igesund during the Afcon 2013 game between Bafana Bafana and Morocco played at the Moses Mabida stadium in Durban. Picture: Herman Verwey/City Press

Sabri Lamouchi (Ivory Coast) – the youngest coach at Afcon (41), keeps it simple in a dark suit with a white shirt. Picture: Chris Ricco/Backpagepix

Kwesi Appiah (Ghana) – another man in black and a white shirt. Picture: Luigi Bennett / Backpagepix

Sewnet Bishaw (Ethiopia) – the 61-year-old’s shiny gray suits makes him look like a headmaster. Picture: Ryan Wilkisky/BackpagePix

Lucio Antunes (Cape Verde) – the air traffic controller also prefers the CEO look. Picture: Luigi Bennett/Backpagepix

Sami Trabesli (Tunisia) - another chief executive in this group. Picture: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix

Vahid Halilhodzic (Algeria) - his black suit and white shirt are fine but the bushy grey hair gives Halilhodzic the Albert Einstein look. Picture: Ryan Wilkisky/Backpagepix

Rachid Taoussi (Morocco) - he got it right with a white shirt and black jacket, but the shinny grey pants made him look like a private school headboy. Picture: Ryan Wilkisky/BackpagePix

The freebies bunch: Patrice Carteron (Mali) – The Frenchman prefers the Malian Football Federation freebie T-shirt and matches it with track pants and running shoes. Picture: Muzi Ntombela/Backpagepix

Paul Put (Burkina Faso) – hardly parted ways with his federations’s white golfer and black track pants. Picture: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix

Stephen Keshi (Nigeria) – CAF throws a bib at him on match day because Keshi seems not aware that his green and white colours clash with that of his team. Picture: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix

The smart casual club: Herve Renard (Zambia) – it doesn’t seem like the 44-year-old Frenchman will swap his slim fit white shirt and tight jeans combination for anything. Picture: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix

Didier Six (Togo) – like his compatriot Renard, Six also swears by the untucked white shirt with its top two buttons undone. Picture: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix

Gernot Rohr (Niger) – The German-born coach bombed out of Afcon in a unique combination of a black safari jacket, a white team golfer, navy jeans and sneakers. Picture: Luigi Bennet/Backpagepix

Claude Le Roy (DR Congo) – The oldest head Afcon at 64 looked cool in his black outfit. All that was missing was a white collar to complete the priest look. Picture: Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix

Funny look: Gustavo Ferrin (Angola) – the Uruguayan-born coach’s fawn jacket with elbow patches made him look like the chairperson of some cattle farmers’ union. Picture: Muzi Ntombela/Backpagepix






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