Comments on: Disarray 3 — Safa 0

By: Adam Wakefield

Adam Wakefield — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:57:50 +0000

Reports in the Business Day suggest that the decision on Santana has already be made. Let us hope so!

Anything is better then that locally-ignorant coach.

By: Joe Misika

Joe Misika — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:44:13 +0000

Anyway, i am an extremist. I am saying lets curl the slide now before things go awry, lets fire Santana, bring in a local coach then push for more development starting from next year aiming for 2014. Lets also keep the current crop of players who played at the U20 World Cup, they will be the stars in Brazil 2014. The Whole structures at SAFA and PSL need an overhaul. Lets wait and see what the new SAFA administration have instore for us. It looks like they mean business.

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By: mgeve

mgeve — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:52:58 +0000

Ja, SANFA sucks and should be disbanded. What about Bafana themselves? The are not serious and committed players. They want huge pays(as if they are super-stars). They need to train even more seriously. Are they not the one on the field? They party too much and ride in slick cars, and get drunk every chance they get. Screw the team, and of course Kaizer and Khoza and their ilk gotta go. We need to purge SAFA and redress the poor state of soccer in a soccer proud country like ours. Sies! Gaa! This stinks, to think we are only a few months away for the World Cup. Aag Shame, on us fans and the people of Mzantsi!

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:23:16 +0000

I am afraid that three more games is not going to make a difference. Neither will changing the coach! I constantly try to grapple with the question, why do rugby and cricket perform so well and football so poorly.

I suppose that first of all football is massivley more competitive, more participation on a global scale. Yet Iceland, a country of 300,000 bankrupt people are more competitive than we are.

So it comes down to the following: SAFA, Ministry of Sport, Ministry of Education (sport is a career too). I know who the top rugby and cricket schools are in the country but who are the top football schools? SAFA needs to start looking at the models used by rugby, perhaps those comissions they all paid themselves could have been better invested in school football rather than that Range Rover Sport.

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By: Adam Wakefield

Adam Wakefield — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:13:22 +0000

SAFA has just said they giving Joel 3 more games. Jeez, if you going to cull the guy you can at least show some ruthlessness….

Sigh

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By: Adam Wakefield

Adam Wakefield — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:28:07 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys.

Point well made here: We’ve been taking 1 step forwards and 2 steps backwards since 2004. To say that SAFA should have done better is a massive, massive understatement.

I agree with all your feedback. There was more openness from the Mbeki government then SAFA has shown for a long time. When it comes to 2010 organisation, they are on the ball (pardon the pun) because there is the political will and pressure coming from the government to make that happen.

The football front is a shambles. Dr Lauer, I hate to say it but we are defintely not going to make it beyond the first round, and we will be the first host nation to do so.

We have had some quality coaches, but with our administrators being more interested in power games then making the team go forward, no wonder we are where we are.

This is all very depressing isn’t it?

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By: Joe Misika

Joe Misika — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:11:05 +0000

How the came to settle for Santana after Carlos Alberto Parreira left still baffles me. They cant be recommended someone then they just offer him a job then thats it without looking into his credentials. I dont think they looked at his record - journeyman club coach who had coached in Brazil, Saudi Arabia & Japan. That doesn’t make for an impressive resume especially in soccer circles.

They also left it too late, they could have employed Guus “The Miracleman” Hiddink. He takes Ordinary teams and turns them into world beaters - South Korea, Australia & recently Russia. He also shows he is not really interested, he cant learn english for a whole year, Mourinho took 3 months to learn Italian & he is now fluent in the language to show that he was interested to coach Inter Milan. Anywhere SAFA always have a way of scoring an own goal. They cant really tell us why they fired Carlos Quieroz or Shakes Mashaba, coaches who were producing results. Quieroz also had a blue print for Bafana going forward, it was never really taken into account. This is one of those moment where you find administrators going infront of the players when it should be the players infront and then the administrators work their magic in the background.

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By: Dr.Peter Lauer

Dr.Peter Lauer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:17:30 +0000

Bafana knows since 2004 that the World Cup takes place in 2010. The crisis within the team lasted already much longer then 2004 and now? The team shows no motivation, the coach is more or less uncapable of bringing winning spirit to the team.
At present, SA will not pass the group-stage.♠

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By: Bravo

Bravo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:12:49 +0000

I was quite taken aback when I heard Danny Jordaan say his clique’s mandate came from the ANC. I sure like Danny and prefer him to the illegal fire arm keeping, name throwing, struggle invoking, questionable tax practises, Umshini Singing adversary of his but I am disappointed. I wonder what would happen after the world cup with a team whose woefulness and lack of commitment to make up for the skills deficit falls i fall short of calling sabotage. I wonder how Sepp felt if he heard those utterances. Any chance

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