Bafana Bafana failed to qualify for the last Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Cameroon and the Fifa World Cup in Qatar and CAF president Patrice Motsepe says this saddens him.
Bafana last qualified for the World Cup 20 years ago in Korea/Japan 2002 but played in the tournament on home soil in 2010 after qualifying as hosts and earned the tag of being the first hosts to be eliminated in the group stages.
“I have a duty to the rest of the continent but I am a South African and I am grateful to this country because it has done for me what I am. It makes me very say because we should be there, we can be there and we will be there,” he said of the bungling Bafana who have become the laughing stock of the continent.
“It is in private meetings and private discussions with the clear focus that South African football deserves to be among the best in the world and will be among the best in the world.”
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