The Bafana Bafana Thread

Banya lost 4-0 to Equatorial Guinea last night. A sad end to the tournament. There will likely be fresh calls for a professional women's league in SA.
 
Bafana squad update:

The Orlando Pirates duo of Oupa Manyisa and Siyabonga Sangweni have been withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad to face Zambia in the Nelson Mandela Challenge on Wednesday.

Kick-off at Soccer City is at 8pm.

Sangweni missed Bucs' League clash against Free State Stars on Saturday because of pain in his knee, while Manyisa was substituted during the match after a thigh injury.

Gordon Igesund has called up Kaizer Chiefs defender Siboniso Gaxa, but Manyisa will not be replaced as the coach believes he has enough cover in midfield.
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Kickoff
 
The game is on DSTV:

The match will be broadcast live on SuperSport 4HD and SuperSport 4 from 7.30pm on Wednesday.
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Not sure how it happened, but it's great!

SAFA also has a new CEO:

FORMER 2010 Fifa World Cup chief competitions officer Dennis Mumble is the new chief executive officer of the South African Football Association.

Mumble,along-serving Safa staff member, was elevated after Robin Petersen was redeployed to head a newly established Safa Development Agancy.
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Sowetan

I really hope that the development plan works. I'll get some flak for this, but they need to some how convince the "rich/white/private/model c" schools to take the sport seriously. They have the best resources to develop players.
 
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Sad, shocking, disgraceful? No one showed up to this match. This amazing stadium, great opposition, dirt cheap tickets, and the crowd is tiny.
 
cr@zydude said:
Sad, shocking, disgraceful? No one showed up to this match. This amazing stadium, great opposition, dirt cheap tickets, and the crowd is tiny.
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They even gave away about 15,000 complementary tickets. The advertising for this game was virtually non-existent. Real shame.
 
And this was a game we were supposed to take. Ouch & Eish! :(
 
They must also do more to advertise the AFCON at the very least make sure the opener, final and Bafana games are sold out by year end. I hear only about 40K tickets sold so far
 
That was about the worst advert for SA hosting the AFCON. Bafana played like ****, the stadium was empty, the pitch was terrible, people stoned the Zambia bus!

Johannesburg - Two boys, aged 12 and 13, have been taken into police custody for allegedly pelting the Zambian soccer team's bus with stones, the SA Football Association (SAFA) said on Thursday.
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News24
 
The U17 team's chance of going to the African Championship is hanging by a thread:

The South African national Under-17 side have faltered in the first leg, third round African Youth Championship encounter following their 3-2 loss to Ghana on Saturday at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton.
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I'm hoping for a miracle, as our players could really do with the experience of playing at these tournaments. Our youth teams really have shocking records.
 
According to this and this/, Bafana will play the DRC at Moses Mabhida on 23 December and Algeria at Loftus on 13 January.

Bafana's warm up fixtures:

23 December DRC Moses Mabhida Stadium
8 January Norway Cape Town Stadium
13 January Algeria Loftus Versfeld
 
Sometimes I just want to bang my head against a wall:

SAFA says it is confident full-back Ricardo Nunes is indeed qualified to play for Bafana.

The left-back has made three appearances for the national team already but is a former Portugal Under-17 international and should have Fifa permission to switch his footballing nationality.

But Fifa says it knows nothing of an alleged application to make the switch, as previously claimed by the player and Safa.

In response to a query, a Fifa spokesman said via e-mail: "With regards to the player Ricardo Nunes, our services never received a request for change of association."

But Safa chief executive Robin Petersen said yesterday that no application for a change of association was necessary because Nunes never played a competitive match for Portugal.

"Because his games for the Under-17 team were friendlies only, we did not need to go through the change of association process.

"We did make a query with them and we have correspondence that clears us," Petersen said.

Nunes, born in South Africa but raised in Portugal where he was a junior at former European champions Benfica, is the first player who has competed for another country to then go on to win caps for Bafana Bafana.

He holds dual nationality.
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Sowetan

It's one piece of paper to fill out. He was born in SA, so FIFA would have approved the switch straight away. There were no complications in this case. Now SAFA will face a serious penalty from FIFA from illegally using a player!
 
The u17 team lost 2-1 to Ghana in their 2nd leg qualifier, to lose the tie 5-3 on aggregate. They thus do not qualify for the 2013 African U17 Championship.
 
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