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Rangers firebrand Diouf: I will be next Guardiola, Mourinho

Rangers' on-loan Blackburn Rovers striker El Hadji Diouf has confessed major coaching ambitions.

He's already targeting a role as Senegal manager and plans to use outgoing Ibrox gaffer Walter Smith as his inspiration to raise the standards of African football.

Diouf said: "Africans simply do not like professionalism. Mediocrity rules. That's why we'll never advance, especially if we continue to give jobs to coaches who appoint friends who sell coconuts in markets as their assistants.

"That's why I'm currently killing myself to pass my coaching badges. I've watched the likes of Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Sam Allardyce and Walter Smith work.

"I'm going to try and reproduce what they do. I give myself four or five years more as a player, then after that I'll head back home to help people.

"I will say thanks to the Lord and I'll think about my new career as a coach with a club and the national team sooner or later."

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