Bafana’s new coach chosen?

Published on Jun 24th, 2010, 2 Comments

pitso-mosimane-bafana SAFA are keeping the lid on who will succeed Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira – even though the Brazilian has disclosed that the next man to lead the national team has already been decided. Parreira says that an announcement will be made soon and that “it is a very good appointment.”

Parreira bowed out of his $200 000-a-month job after Bafana’s elimination from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in which they drew with Mexico 1-1, lost to eventual Group A table-toppers Uruguay 3-0, but rebounded to beat a woeful French side 2-1.

According to the KickOff website, SAFA have always stated that the new Bafana Bafana coach will be a South African and that preference would be given to Parreira’s long-standing assistant Pitso Mosimane who also occupied that position during the tenure of former Bafana coach Joel Santana.

However, Mosimane, himself, has cast an element of doubt over this with a statement to Reuters earlier this week that there have been no formal discussions with SAFA yet and that he has not received a firm offer.

The other man believed to be in the running for the position is current SuperSport coach Gavin Hunt.

Hunt, born 15 days before Mosimane in July 1964, played fullback for now defunct Cape Town club Hellenic and launched his coaching career by taking Seven Stars into the premier league.

Spells at other top-flight sides Hellenic, Black Leopards and Moroka Swallows followed before he succeeded Mosimane and led SuperSport to three consecutive national championship titles.

He holds a UEFA A licence having travelled to Europe during several close seasons at his own expense and his my-way-or-the-highway approach worked wonders with largely star-less squads.

SAFA CEO Leslie Sebide added to the confusion by stating this week that SAFA still needs to “go through a complicated process before making their choice”.

Whoever takes over has his work cut out with six-time champions Egypt, improving Niger and bogey team Sierra Leone in the same 2012 Nations Cup qualifying group.

Only group winners are guaranteed a place in the finals to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and the ‘Pharaohs’ are natural favourites having won the last three tournaments.

Source + Pic: sport24.co.za

Posted by Andrew Norman

http://N/A Theo

Much as I agree Pitso has learnt a lot throughout his term as Bafana’s assistant coach, I believe he has not tasted success as “the man in front”! At Supersport he was a force to be reckoned with, but his success there cannot be compared to that of Gavin hunt here in South Africa. I feel Hunt could have been given the Bafana Job. But if SAFA feels they need Pitso it is still Ok. Hunt should also be brought into the fray as one of the assistants to Pitso. I have heard that Tovey is likely to be roped in to assist Pitso and Jairo Leal. It is better to waste money developing our local coaches than spending it on people who will leave us. Leal has been loyal servant to the South African course to developing its soccer. He is welcomed to stay. His experience with Bafana is a plus factor. Pitso, Tovey, Hunt and Jairo Leal could form a formidable combination! If hunt cannot be given employment at the senior national term why don’t SAFA deploy him to the Junior National Teams. His expertise is needed somewhere!
http://none Chad Newman

What South Africa or BAFANA BAFANA should do is remove BEE from football and recruit by who is best and not by the colour of skin BAFANA BAFANA IS A DISGRACE TO SOUTH AFRICAN sport and I’D bet if you would play more coloureds or whites in the team we would do much better.And my bet for the match against Kenya is a 1-0 Defeat to South africa

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