Broos takes swipe at PSL for tight fixture schedule

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos takes another swipe this time at the PSL for stretching DStv Premiership fixtures to the eve of AFCON.

Broos will lead Bafana to the upcoming 2023 tournament in Cote d’Ivoire and laments the fact that his players will not have time off before heading to the showpiece.

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The outspoken manager says he would have liked his players to have five or six days off before the start of the continental tournament.

As things stand, the PSL has scheduled matches until December 30 and the premier continental tournament starts on January 13.

BROOS TAKES A SWIPE AT PSL FOR STRETCHING FIXTURES

The former Cameroon boss saw his men drawn in Group E against Namibia, Tunisia, and Mali at AFCON and says the PSL ignored his pleas.

Broos argues that he asked the league’s governing body to schedule fixtures until December 23 to allow his charges to rest.

“The players for some of the big teams would have started playing at the beginning of August, this means they will have played many games,” he said per Sowetan.

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“It would have been very good for those players to get six to seven days off if the PSL was going to be stopped on the 23rd as I asked at the end of last season.

“I didn’t wait for two days – immediately after the end of last season we sent the letter asking them to stop the PSL on the 23rd.  

“The reason is to give the players some time off for six to seven days. Did they read the letter?

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“I don’t know. They ignored it. When the programme came out, the first thing I checked was when the league was going to stop.”

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BAFANA BOSS LASHES OUT AT PSL FOR TIGHT FIXTURE SCHEDULE

The Bafana coach has built a reputation for being outspoken and he is known for criticising the state of football in Mzansi.

At the same time, he is known for having launched and received attacks from local coaches regarding players among other issues.

 “When I saw the December 30 and 31 [for the last games before the break], I said OK but I was not expecting something different because it doesn’t interest them,” he adds.

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“They just don’t want to give you a good opportunity and a good environment to prepare the team. 

“I was in Cameroon two weeks [in Broos’s tenure as head of their national team, with whom he won the 2017 Nations Cup] and I asked for a meeting with the coaches and they were all there.

“Here I have asked already four times [for such a meeting in South Africa], and I am not blaming the coaches, but it was postponed by the PSL.”

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