Mbalula slams Bafana, AGAIN

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Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has continued his scathing criticism of Bafana Bafana’s players after their early exit from the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN).

In a video on the eNCA website, Mbalula said local football fans must forget about the current generation playing for Bafana Bafana and look to the future.

“If the technical team is the problem, then everyone must pack and go and we must take decisive actions,” said Mbalula.

“Even if those boys were playing in Nelson Mandela’s presence, I don’t think they would have woken up that day.

“The Madiba Magic wouldn’t have worked that day. I think they are a generation of a special calibre who must be forgotten, generally, and we must look forward.

“Even if you asked Danny Jordaan (SAFA president) to leave his presidency (role) and coach them they will never win I am telling you because they have no winning mentality.

“They don’t respect their mothers, they don’t respect their girlfriends, they don’t respect their brothers, they don’t respect anything.

“They just look at themselves and say we are fine useless as we are we’ll be paid tomorrow by SAFA, good luck, thank you, we'll go back to our football clubs.

“Sometimes you need to stand and fight for your country and your pride,” he added.

In the immediate aftermath of Bafana's CHAN exit, Mbalula lambasted Gordon Igesund's team - and singled out goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs as the reason for the team's defeat.

"What I saw there was not a problem of coaching, it was a bunch of losers, who don't have any respect for this country and don't have any respect for anybody," Mbalula told a packed media conference in Cape Town, according to SAPA.

"That goalkeeper (Moeneeb Josephs), he was playing with the team, but he added up a whole lot of mess.

"The second goal... the goalkeeper commits a penalty, alone, single-handedly, and without being assisted by anybody.

"I love Moeneeb Josephs but I don't know what was going on with him yesterday... that is a total disgrace, a performance like that.

"I saw outside, people were lining up to greet them (Bafana Bafana).

"I'll never greet them, I did not even go to the dressing room, I did not even call them.

"To me, that was a disaster."

Mbalula was referring to Nigeria's second goal of the game, when Josephs made a handling error, which led to him trying to regain control of the loose ball, bringing down Fuad Salami in the process and conceding a penalty on the half-hour mark.

Mbalula was clearly not in a sympathetic mood, shifting his tirade from the goalkeeper to the rest of the team, though Josephs could not be blamed for feeling hard-done-by at the minister's hard words.

"First and foremost, I want to concede that we, indeed, have a crisis of monumental proportions and this tournament was just one journey that proved we don't have a crisis of talent, we've got a crisis of putting everything together.

"The people of South Africa wake up and get this mediocrity. I felt like just standing up and walking out." Mbalula pointed to the Nigerian camp, who he said were in disbelief after Bafana failed to trouble them anywhere on the field.

"Two useless goals, I mean, Nigeria were shocked.

"I saw their coach starting to stand up, he couldn't believe.

"They thought they were going to meet the lions, whose stadium was filled to capacity, to come and fight for their own country, but what did they come to meet?

"Just a bunch of unbearable, useless individuals," Mbalula concluded.

Bafana’s next assignment is to qualify for the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be staged in Morocco next year.
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lol, ouch. :whistle:
 
I for one am happy that he's making so much noise. Maybe this will be the turning point for soccer in SA. But then again, it is election year so...
 
This moron now needs to shut the fsck up. This is not the sort of maturity we need from a sports minister. He's really showing his ANC Youth League colours with his teenage outbursts.

What a pathetic chop this twit is...
 
http://www.iol.co.za/sport/soccer/bafana/bafana-set-for-the-scrapheap-1.1635284#.Ut_R6xBBupc

On Monday, Jordaan gave the strongest indication yet that Safa was seriously considering ditching Bafana Bafana as the men’s national soccer team’s pet name, following their embarrassing elimination from the African Nations Championships on Sunday.
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Change the name and all will be good.:wtf:

They don’t respect their mothers, they don’t respect their girlfriends, they don’t respect their brothers, they don’t respect anything.
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Someone is begging for a lawsuit.
 
You guys don't know how depressing it is being a soccer fan in South Africa. Local soccer is so sad that I now feel nothing when watching all sports. Just a shallow emptiness. I know not how to love (sport).
 
Rocket Raccoon said:
Well he's right on that point.
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I think that's complete bullschit. The players do take pride in what they do and it comes through when we win - in interviews, celebrations, visceral reactions. When we lose, all of a sudden they're an embarrassment and the sports ministry act like pissed off teenagers on in the YouTube comments section discussing Bieber's new hairstyle and One Direction's sexual preferences.

I don't think that anyone, especially on this forum, is in a position to know the inner workings of the team structures, nor the motivations and convictions of the players. But when we lose, everyone's a fscking psychology expert and knows the players intricately enough to concur with statements from a childish prick, who should be setting a better example and asking "what can I as sports minister do to make them better?" instead of going on an extended media rant and rave as if they just murdered his prized My Little Pony...
 
efitol said:
You guys don't know how depressing it is being a soccer fan in South Africa. Local soccer is so sad that I now feel nothing when watching all sports. Just a shallow emptiness. I know not how to love (sport).
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I grew up with local soccer. Played it, watched it, supported it. I lost interest a few seasons ago when it was clear that no real investment was being made into proper grass-roots structures, as is the case for nearly all sports that this putrid government try to inject themselves into.

The government are squarely to blame for the abortion that has become local soccer. For the sports minister to now stand up and insult every staffing member of Bafana Bafana in such a vitriolic and personal manner is just despicable.

He should not keep his job. Anyone caught with their true colours farting out of their swine-orifices in the fashion that Mbalula has, should have his desk cleared out before he one day returns to his office...
 
Sounds as though he has a hidden agenda...

He has not mentioned the manager.. why?

If he was happy with what the manager / coach did, why not mention that the fault does not lie there?
If he was unhappy, which to me seems that way, why does he not specifically mention Igesund?

Bafana's rot started when they stopped picking players on merit and instead chose who they felt deserved or could do with money.. in other words... too many previously disadvantaged when there were much better players abroad.

now the players abroad dont even want to play for bafana.
 
The problem with Mbalula's little tirade, is that those players chosen represent some of the best players we have, locally, and he will not see this as an indication that the standard of our local league (and below) is of a piss-poor quality. And this is where he needs to do his job and rectify, as DJ put it, the abortion that local football has descended into.
 
DJ... said:
I grew up with local soccer. Played it, watched it, supported it. I lost interest a few seasons ago when it was clear that no real investment was being made into proper grass-roots structures, as is the case for nearly all sports that this putrid government try to inject themselves into.

The government are squarely to blame for the abortion that has become local soccer. For the sports minister to now stand up and insult every staffing member of Bafana Bafana in such a vitriolic and personal manner is just despicable.

He should not keep his job. Anyone caught with their true colours farting out of their swine-orifices in the fashion that Mbalula has, should have his desk cleared out before he one day returns to his office...
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I will go wAtch a local junior game anytime. When I look at safa I often wonder wtf they do with their time besides voting themselves bonuses. So much talent that never gets recognized.
 
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