Florsheim Ngwenya

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Florsheim Ngwenya
Cape Town Tigers
Position Head coach
League BAL
Career history
As coach:
2005–2007 South Africa (assistant)
2007–2011South Africa
0 Egoli Magic
2022–present Cape Town Tigers (assistant and head coach)
Career highlights and awards

Mlungisi Florsheim "Flosh" Ngwenya is a South African professional basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the Cape Town Tigers of the Basketball National League (BNL) and of the South Africa men's national team. He is the most successful coach in South African basketball history, with five national titles.

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Career

Club career

Ngwenya has been the head coach for the Egoli Magic and won four Basketball National League (BNL) championships, the most of any coach in league history. [1] [2]

Ngwenya has been head and assistant coach of the Cape Town Tigers since August 2022. [3] He coached the team during their Road to BAL campaigns in 2022 and 2023, both times successfully qualifying for the main tournament. [4] In the 2023 BAL season, he served as the Tigers' assistant coach under Rasheed Hazzard. He also coached the Tigers in their debut season in the Basketball National League (BNL), guiding them to the championship. [5]

National team career

After serving as an assistant coach, among others at AfroBasket 2005. [6] Then, he was appointed head coach and Ngwenya led the South Africa men's national team from 2007 to 2011, [7] including at the AfroBasket 2011 tournament in Madagascar. [8]

On 8 February 2023, Basketball South Africa announced it had appointed Ngwenya as head coach of the South Africa national team. [8]

Personal

Ngwenya was named after the American classic shoe brand Florsheim Shoes by his father, who owned multiple pairs of the brand. [3]

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