Baxter frustrated as Bafana struggle to secure friendlies ahead of Afcon

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The coach had wanted to play one more team in Dubai other than Ghana‚ and so far plans to play Uganda and Angola have not been tied down.

South Africa’s only confirmed friendly international at present is against Ghana in Dubai‚ where Bafana will camp for a few days en route to Egypt‚ just after the national team leave South Africa on June 10.

Baxter’s plan had been to play a friendly in Johannesburg before that announcement‚ but so far‚ with five days to go of the South African leg of the preparations‚ that has yet to materialise. Baxter‚ asked what the stumbling block has been organising matches‚ indicated he was frustrated at the South Africa Football Association for leaving the organisation late.

“It’s just not happening. I’m supposing that if we were to pay for three days at a hotel for any of the Cosafa Cup teams‚ flying them up in first class‚ we’d get people wanting to play.

 

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SAFA_net should fire stuartbaxter this thing of hiring white foreigners in our soccer is really setting us backward, we have enough coaches in South Africa black or white, OfficialPSL is also guilty of the inferiority complex.

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