Bafana coach Hugo Broos. Photo: Twitter
Hugo Broos blasts Chiefs: Players not good enough for Bafana!
Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos says Chiefs have to improve before players can be seriously considered for the national team.
Bafana coach Hugo Broos. Photo: Twitter
Earlier this month, Hugo Broos named a 36-member preliminary squad for two upcoming international friendly matches, which featured three Chiefs players, but none have been included in the trimmed 23-man squad named on Wednesday.
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Given Msimango, Sfiso Hlanti and Pule Mmodi have all been cut after initial inclusion in the wider squad, and Hugo Broos did not hold back when providing his reasoning for the omissions.
“For the moment Kaizer Chiefs is still Kaizer Chiefs of last year,” he told journalists, as quoted by iDiski Times. “They have a lot of new players and maybe that is the reason why they don’t achieve what they need to achieve.
“They are still many points behind Sundowns and I said it already year – for any competition it’s important that the top teams are in the top of the ranking. Ok, Pirates won yesterday, so there is only five points difference with Sundowns, with Kaizer Chiefs its eight points I think. This is too much. Only five games and you are already eight points behind who is first. It’s not a little team who is first.
“Chiefs have to improve. I saw the game last Saturday, I was at the game of Chiefs [and] I’m very sorry but now for a moment there is no player who deserves to be at Bafana Bafana.”
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You can hear what the Bafana coach had to say about the Chiefs omissions below:
The squad now heads towards hosting Namibia on 9 September 2023 (kick off is at 15h00) and DR Congo on 12 September (17h00) in matches that are part of the preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire in January next year, and for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November.
How the latest Bafana squad looks:
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As a reminder, the South African Football Association (SAFA) has announced that Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, Johannesburg, will host Bafana Bafana’s two international friendly matches against Namibia and DR Congo next month.
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How the preliminary squad looked
