Banyana Owe It To The Nation To Qualify For The Olympics
Banyana Banyana owe it to every South Africa n to beat Nigeria and qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. And this will be the cherry on top after we won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2022 and also reached the Last 16 of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand last year. Banyana Banyana became the first South Africa n team to reach the knockout stage of a World Cup. Two years earlier they had failed to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after getting knocked out by Botswana.
In 1993, just one year after South African football was readmitted to international football, 1966 World Cup winner Terry Paine was given the responsibility of being the first Banyana Banyana coach. And his first match in charge was a relatively easy 14-0 win against Swaziland. And after knocking out Zambia and Angola at the 1995 African Women’s Championship quarterfinal and semifinals, Banyana Banyana met Nigeria in the final where they suffered a humiliating 11-2 defeat on aggregate.
The win also handed the Nigerian side a ticket to the 1995 FIFA Women’s World Cup held in Sweden. Five years later, the two teams met again at the final of the 2000 African Women’s Championship played at Vosloorus Stadium. But the match will forever be remembered for the ugly scenes off the field than the beautiful football on it.
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