By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos met with the Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairman Dr. Irvin Khoza at the SAFA NEC meeting that took place on Saturday in Sandton.
Broos was angry with the PSL for not granting the request to stop the season on December 24 last year, to give his side more time to prepare for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.
Bafana Bafana exceeded expectations at the AFCON in the Ivory Coast by winning the bronze medal, but Broos still said after the tournament that he planned to meet with Khoza, to discuss the PSL being more amenable in terms of helping South African national teams.
“I had a meeting with Khoza but I understand what he said in that meeting so it was not a long meeting,” Broos told the media on Tuesday.
“He said, ‘Look I’m just representing the 16 professional teams and I don’t want to have the discussion of this meeting only between me and you. I think it’s much better that other people are there when we meet each other. I can’t, on my own, take decisions for them or speak for them’.
“So, we postponed the meeting, we will have the meeting when I am back in South Africa.
“So, it will be at the end of April, there’s nothing more that happened more than that. I could really understand his feelings about that.
“We will have the meeting at the end of April, no problem about that.”
Broos has also hit out at Rulani Mokwena for telling the press some of Mamelodi Sundowns’ players are carrying injuries.
“I heard some rumours and read something about Rulani saying his players are not fit, blah, blah, blah. Why is he talking to the press? Why don’t the medical staff of Sundowns make contact with us?”
Bafana Bafana are currently in Algeria for their FIFA Series international friendlies pilot project.
They will take on Andorra at the 19 May 1956 stadium on Thursday, 21 March at 11 pm [SA time] before they play their second match against Algeria on Tuesday, 26 March at the Stade Nelson Mandela at the same kickoff time.