The Banyana striker will watch the rest of the tournament on the sidelines.
Banyana Banyana striker Thembi Kgatlana suffered an Achilles tendon injury during the team's clash against Botswana at the WAFCON.
Kgatlana, the 2018 Caf Woman Player-of-the-Year, is ruled out of the tournament after only scoring one goal in the last three games.The 26-year-old striker had one of the best games in the tie against Botswana, helping the team win 1-0 and she was voted as the woman-of-the-match after the match. “Thembi Kgatlana sustained a complete rupture of the left Achilles tendon against Botswana, which was confirmed by the MRI scan this morning. Unfortunately she will be out for the whole Wafcon 2022 tournament and she is due for an operation back home in South Africa,” Mokoka told safa.net.
The physician also shed some light on Jermaine Seoposenwe, who did not finish the previous game due to an injury.
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