‘Took me two years to watch a full Bafana game’ –  Pitso Mosimane

Former Bafana Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane admitted he hasn’t watched the national team play in over two years.

Mosimane is one of the SuperSport TV pundits for the 2023 African Cup of Nations and during his assessment of Bafana, te 59-year-old said he was impressed with the team’s first half showing despite going down 2-0 to Mali.

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Second-half goals by Hamari Traoré and Lassine Sinayoko gave the West Africans the three points in Group E.

Mosimane left South Africa to coach Ah Ahli in 2020 but has since moved to the Middle East.

Mosimane still positive despite Bafana’s defeat

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“It took me two and half years to watch a full game of Bafana. Yes, highlights I always check. But let me be correct: I watched Bafana against Morocco in Morocco. I was really impressed with the first half, to be honest, in Morocco,” he said after the Bafana match. 

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“However, to come back to that, I think our team is good, and we have assembled a good team. We are not the bad team in the tournament, but if you are good, you must win, to be honest. If you don’t win, you can’t justify what I’m saying that we have a good team.”

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Mosimane said Bafana were better in the first half however Mali regrouped and managed to get the better of their inexperienced opponents.

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“But, I’m looking at it differently, tactical side, how we are organised, and we were a better team in the first 45 minutes. Everything changed because Mali got a goal early in the second half. We came emotional a little bit because we are human beings.”

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