Faulty
reasoning by Pitso Mosimane keeps costing the nation. As a reasonable man I
can’t stand in silence as our national head coach keeps making a mockery of our
football. In one interview this gentleman claims our Bafana Bafana is playing
well but we still find it difficult to score goals, when in Port Elizabeth we
called for Katlego Mphela to be substituted when we were playing against Ivory
Coast, the same Pitso in post interview said the country must give him a
striker, because he has looked around and can’t find one.
This
happens at the time when both Siyabonga Nomvete is playing one is best football
in long time (and now a joint goal scorer in the league with Mphela) and Benni McCarthy
is both a seasoned player and scoring stunning goals for Orlando Pirates.
This
is where Pitso has faulty reasoning he argues that because of their age he can
use these players… not for anything but age... meaning these players are so
much old they do not fit in his future goals… faulty line of thought indeed.
It
is faulty because in the current season if you were to list at least five best
strikers in SA today…surely Nomvete and Benni will be there… we can take their
experience outside and just focus on their performances this season… their
experience is an added bonus to the package, but for some reason Pitso is still
mentally locked in the issue of birthdays.
For
example Roger Millar achieved stardom at age 38…four years older than Nomvete
and Benni just imagine the then President of Cameroon Paul Biya did not take
his visionary steps to personally call Roger and plead with him to come out of
retirement and rejoin the national team… and bang those goals in the 1990 World
Cup in Italy… I pause.
By Aphiwe Bewana
