Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis is confident that talismanic striker Thembi Kgatlana will be ready for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand later in the year.
Kgatlana has been recovering since she ruptured her Achilles tendon in Banyana Banyana’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations group match against Botswana in 2022.As a result, the 26-year-old missed the bulk of Banyana’s victorious 2022 Wafcon campaign but she is getting back to fitness with her club Racing Louisville in the US.
We felt it best we don’t call her for Serbia, but to let her continue training with the team in this period to get ready for the next page of her recovery.”Kgatana’s unavailability has opened the door for highly-rated University of Pretoria attacker Wendy Shongwe who has impressed during the Hollywoodbets Super League.“She has the physicality and we have also seen that a couple of times she played at left-back.
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