We then had to play one of the world best teams, and Bafana Bafana knew that we were fully behind them. As much as we wanted to win, the team had to be cautious and not allow the Spaniards a lot of room especially when they had the ball.
It was greatly disturbing to hear what Mr. Bongo had to say, just after our win. He suggested that the coach should be sent packing straight to Brazil, where He came from History is there to tell us that chopping and changing of coaches has not helped South African football.
As if that was not enough, we lost against Spain. This is a team that has not lost since November 2006. This was their 14 straight win. Spain, is ranked number 1 in the entire world, ahead the world champs, Italy, The Samba Boys, Brazil, and everyone else. I thought we all knew all this in South Africa.
Then after the loss, many people are calling for the coach to be sacked. Just when I thought we would be celebrating the success of qualifying for the second round of the Confederations Cup. South Africans are very hard to please, as if they have the kind of players who are world beaters. Like they have the best development in the world. More like their teams are playing the 16 and 17 year olds.
There are a number of things that we need to do, change and investigate to make sure we take our soccer forward, not sack the coach.
These are but few questions that we must try to ask ourselves:
• Why is Mr. Sturu Pasiya not part of SAFA anymore?
• What happened to the reserve league?
• Is the two stream NFD beneficial?
• What happens to our players after they represent the country at Junior level?
• Why our teams under perform on continental tournaments?
• Why do we have a good coach like Trott Moloto working in the office of the President instead of coaching our junior teams?
• Is SAFA serving the nation's interest or their own?
• After we answered all this, maybe we should ask ourselves, “Are we a soccer country?"
Baile (Diskioff manager)
baile.diskioff@gmail.com
