Bafana coach Hugo Broos suggests that all South African football stakeholders should form a united front to find solutions to improve the standard of football in the country. Or he will be the 17th coach in 20 years to exit SAFA‘s revolving door.
The 70-year-old pinpoints the lack of quality players to PSL’s poor level. However, he believes more could be achieved if everyone starts working together and is confident solutions would be found.
Broos spoke on the back of the national team’s return from Morocco, where they lost 2-1 in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
“We have to sit down with the PSL coaches, the league and SAFA and face the problem of how we can increase the quality of South African football. We did it in my country [Belgium] in 2006 we took measures, 10 years later Belgium was first in FIFA rankings,” Broos told the media.
“Without solving the problem, I will be the 17th coach in 20 years to be fired, but the problem will still be there. Working together, in the end, we’ll have a solution on that.”
The Belgian international lamented South Africa’s lack of quality players and PSL’s failure to produce world-class players.
“The problem is that our level of PSL is not high enough. We don’t make players of high quality. Our best player is Percy Tau, and he has problems at his team Al Ahly even with a South African coach who wanted him.”
“We don’t have high-quality players like Ghana, France and Morocco. When you see those teams in Ghana, 90% of the players are based in Europe and France. I don’t have to explain. All players are in big European teams. Morocco had only one player of the CAF Champions League winner, the goalkeeper of Casablanca. I think it shows that all those players are playing in big European teams like Florentina, PSG and Sevilla,” he concluded.
