Booth‚ who captained U-20 side that was the first South African football team to qualify for the World Cup in 1997 in Malaysia and the U-23s at the 2000 Sydney Olympics‚ said successful teams stay together for long to create a bond between players and coaches.
“There are national teams who have qualified for Olympics since then but the six-year plan that Safa signed off with hasn’t been replicated since. Booth said the camaraderie in the U-23 team was similar to that of Bafana Bafana when they won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996 because players trusted each other and they wanted to play for Mashaba.
“That’s why there was such outpouring of emotions when we won against New Zealand‚ knowing that the goal of qualification has been achieved.”
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