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| A disappointed Igesund when he heard that SAFA won't keep him beyond August |
The marry-go-round of South
African Football has started again and the grinding machine does not seem to
stop firing coaches. Whoever is next on that hot seat will not last even the
mere 2 years. As Ted
Dumitru has said, South African brand of football is long overdue and
honestly, whoever takes that seat won't last unless someone at SAFA house
understand that the reason Brazil are five times world champions is because in
all those golden years, they were playing their own home-grown brand.
I am
not saying foreign coaches are bad; all I am saying is it will take time for a
local coach to get the correct combination but in time, results will come.
Do we only want a quick fix as a footballing nation or we want consistency the
results? That will not happen overnight. My point is; the sacking of Igesund was premature. Didn't
Bafana at some stage under the very same Gordon upset the current world
champions on home soil? Isn’t this man's track record at the helm of the
national team enough to make him keep his job?
My plea
to Dany Jordan and the rest of his crew: put the
interests of South African football before your own personal glory. We all know
that you are a good administrator of football hence under your leadership we
were able to stage the best World Cup ever on African soil, but at the moment it’s
not about wielding that axe just because you can. Think about our football in
say 10 years from now. Where will Bafana Bafana be at that time? The only tournament
that they will play is the COSA FA...that because no one really has to qualify
for that, or we will play big tournaments only if we get to host them, like it
has been the trend in the past four years (2010 World Cup included).
It’s
about time someone put the country first now that Madiba is gone.
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