Menzi Magubane
The South African Football Association (Safa) President Danny Jordaan is planning a showdown meeting with Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos.
On Tuesday Broos told the media that the standard of South Africa’s top flight league is not high enough and the country’s players lack quality.
“I will sit down and talk to him. It’s important that these matters are dealt with in the organisation and that is what we will do,” said Jordaan.
He said he can’t comment further because he was not at Broos’s media conference held in Johannesburg.
“I can’t comment on things that I have not heard or seen. But I will engage him on this matter,” said Jordaan.
It remains to be seen what Safa will do about Broos. Will they punish him and if so, how?
Broos has received a lot of criticism since taking the Bafana Bafana job with his harsh comments and most fans did not agree with his sentiments.
However, his Tuesday’s remarks left others agreeing with him that a lot of work needs to be done to improve the country’s football. The Belgian likened Bafana’s situation to what his home country used to experience in the past.
“In 2006 we didn’t have big players in Belgium. We were not in the European Championships and World Cups anymore which is the same as here,” said Broos.
“We saw what was needed and we did it. Ten years later Belgium was first on the Fifa rankings. We did something about the problem.”
He said they didn’t have high-quality players so they developed players and tried to increase the level of the competition.
“Why can’t we do it here?”
It must be said the gaffer has a point. SA football needs a revamp and hopefully Bafana will be back to its former self that won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996.
