BBK: Last week this column was addressed to the South African soccer players. It questioned the scale of their ambition, or lack thereof.

This week it is aimed at the head honchos, the custodians of our game on both the Safa and PSL administration divide.

Allow me to submit that the men and women entrusted with the game are grossly oblivious of the enormity of their responsibilities.

"Tell me something I don't know," I can hear you say.

Here's what you don't know.

Today, Simon Ngomane will announce a squad that will represent South Africa in the African Nations Championship between February 4 and 25. This is a competition for home-based players.

Making their debut in the tournament, South Africa are in Group B with Ghana, Zimbabwe and Niger.

Ngomane will announce a team bursting with Vodacom League players. The reason is that Premier League teams have refused to release players, as is their prerogative for a tournament falling outside the Fifa calendar.

So Ngomane is left with no choice but to scrape the bottom of the barrel and come up with a squad from the third division.

Considering that the national under-17s and their under-20 counterparts fared horrendously in their African and World Cups, you would have expected better thinking from the silky suits.

Leaders who care about the well-being of football would have set aside their differences and used the opportunity to give the national under-23s the chance to use the tournament to prepare for Olympic qualifying.

But why would our football politicians worry about that when their self-serving interests can be advanced? Not to mention their taste for bonuses. No one doubts the PSL has grown to a money-spinning monster.

Likewise, Safa is on a healthier financial footing than it used to be, when being in the red was a norm.

There is little sense in having stashes of cash and all the swanky stadiums if we can't hold our own against Lesotho and Botswana.

All because there is a club versus country tug of war for players in the same country.

All because the plans of the national association are not in sync with those of its professional wing.

Yet all these egotist excellencies want to assure us that they want nothing but the best for South African soccer at all levels.

History will judge them harshly. But on second thoughts, they don't care about their place in history.

If they did, this stand-off between Safa and the PSL would have been long-resolved if the good of the game, rather than greed, governed their better judgment. But when people are power-drunk, nothing else will matter until their thirst for power is quenched.