Former Bafana Bafana midfielder Teko “the General” Modise says the team needs fresh ideas, and coach Hugo Broos should retire now.
Broos revealed a few months ago that he would retire after the Fifa World Cup to spend time with his grandkids. But after Bafana’s elimination from the World Cup following their 1-0 defeat to Canada, Broos seemed to be backtracking on his promise, with Safa president Danny Jordaan saying they would have a “confidential” meeting to discuss his future.
But Modise feels Bafana need fresh ideas from a new coach and that Broos must retire.
“Let me say this with all due respect: he qualified for everything he said he would; he took South African football to the next level, a level that we have never been in,” former Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Modise told the media at the Hollywoodbets Durban July on Saturday.
“He elevated South African football, [and] the fans have fallen in love with the team again, but also, we’ve seen his limitations.
“We shouldn’t be scared of a new coach. We need new ideas because now the core of the team is younger. We need a young coach with new and fresh ideas, and thanks to Hugo Broos for actually making us fall in love with Bafana again.
“We have a benchmark now, but with Mexico and against Canada, it showed the limitations that he had against Egypt at the Afcon [Africa Cup of Nations] and Cameroon. So we need fresh ideas, someone to look at things differently, but we will never forget what he has done for South African football.”
We need a young coach with new and fresh ideas.
— Teko Modise
Pitso Mosimane has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Broos, while Benni McCarthy and Rulani Mokwena are understood to have expressed interest in succeeding the 74-year-old.
“Right now...it is no longer about finding the right coach; it is just finding the right person to manage the team that we have,” Modise said.
“We’ve got players that are well coached in the teams they are playing in; we just need someone to manage that and help the team to become better. Regardless of who comes, as long as they understand that there is a team in place. Don’t change the team, and I’m sure we will be fine.”
Meanwhile, Justin Snaith and Richard Fourie made history in Saturday’s R10 million Hollywoodbets Durban July, becoming the first combination to win four Julys, and Snaith clinched the exacta with two horses both part-owned by Jonathan Bloch and Nancy Hossack, meaning the latter had become the second owners this millennium to land the July exacta and the third in recent memory.
For Nancy Hossack it was an incredible day in which events had reached full circle over a 12 year period and in which her thoughts were often with her late father Jack Mitchell.
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