Orlando Pirates are questioning the fairness of three key players travelling more than a quarter of the way across the world for Bafana Bafana's friendly tour of Central America on the back of Bucs' trip to Egypt for a CAF Confederation Cup semifinal against Al-Ahly. Pirates beat Al-Ahly to reach the Confederation Cup final against Tunisian club Etoile du Sahel.Bucs arrived back in Johannesburg yesterday afternoon with Mpho Makola, Thamsanqa Gabuza and Thabo Matlaba set to jet out today to Costa Rica, who play Bafana in the city of Liberia at 4am SA time on Friday.SA play Honduras in San Pedro Sula at midnight on Tuesday, before returning home - having crossed seven time zones - a day before Pirates play University of Pretoria in a Telkom Knockout match."For the Confed semi we had to travel all the way, not just to Cairo [via Dubai], but to Suez, which was an added bus trip. So couldn't the national team have made an exception?" Pirates administrative officer Floyd Mbele asked. "Especially since the next week the national team are playing a Chan [African Nations Championship] qualifier, and these players they've called up are unlikely to be part of that. Why not call on some of the players who will feature in the Chan?"Mbele said Pirates had requested their players to be excused from coach Shakes Mashaba's squad for the Central American tour."Yes, there were discussions. They've called them up in spite of the conversation," he said."Where do you see your relationship as a national team coach to the clubs? Because this thing is not unique - it's happened to us before."It's not just the past two years where we've done well in the CAF competitions. In 2006 we went to the Champions League semifinal. In 2013 we went to the final. This year we're in a final again. The national team and the country's football benefit because of our team doing well."..