Tricky start and finish for Bafana Bafana in 2018 World Cup qualifiers

27 June 2016 - 17:28
By Nick Said

South Africa will have a difficult start and finish to their 2018 FIFA World Cup pool phase qualification with punishing trips to west Africa. Bafana Bafana have been drawn in Group D alongside Senegal‚ Burkina Faso and Cape Verde Islands‚ a draw that does give them some hope of finishing top of the pool and winning a place at the finals in Russia.

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