Coach wants the star player to stretch himself further
Percy Tau is set to play a significant role for Bafana Bafana at the Africa Cup of Nations in June and coach Stuart Baxter wants his star man to “stretch himself even more” in the tournament in Egypt.
“Big players win big games and you can’t prepare people by wrapping them in cotton wool‚” said Baxter of his most prized asset Tau‚ who scored four goals to help secure Bafana’s 10th appearance in the event. “When Chris Hutton [Brighton coach] called and asked me ‘is he strong enough?’ I said to him he played against [Kalidou] Coulibaly [of Napoli and Burkina Faso] and didn’t get knocked around. I said if you look at the Burkina Faso centre-backs they are almost 2m and 150kg‚ yet Percy was in and out of them and they couldn’t catch him.
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