Former Bafana Bafana head coach Augusto Palacios explains how South Africa can emulate Argentina in four years' time. Read more ➡️
Palacios who was born in Peru explained how as a South American he was left impressed by Argentina's story in the 2022 FIFA World Cup."After 36 years Argentina are champions again, the last person to win it for them was Maradona."Maradona won it in 1986 remember? Now it's Messi.
"The potential of football in South America has always been there because of proper structure and development."And this is something we need to look at. It ensures the long term. "Remember when we had Junaid Hartley, Matthew Booth, Benni McCarthy, Stanton Fredericks, Delron Buckley; we had all these players in our Under-17 remember?
"Nowadays in the PSL the most important thing is winning the league, winning trophies, and the prize money. "We have a fantastic league called the DStv Diski Challenge, we should be promoting at least three youngsters in every PSL club each season."We have own Mbappe and Messi here in South Africa."We have four years now before the next World Cup, where is our vision? PSL need to start working together with SAFA."
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