“We had assessed that it was the kind of injury that could be resolved during the tournament. The medical team really worked hard on that.'
The selection of the big‚ athletic 21-year-old Bloemfontein Celtic keeper for the third-place playoff at Cairo International Stadium paid off for coach David Notoane.
Mpoto had gone into the tournament carrying an injury‚ and Ajax Cape Town keeper Darren Johnson kept a clean sheet in the Group C 0-0 draw against Zambia‚ 1-0 win against Ivory Coast and 0-0 draw against Nigeria. Notoane and his coaching staff‚ aware that the playoff against Ghana might well go to penalties‚ brought back Mpoto‚ who had starred in two penalty shootouts as the SA Under-23s won the plate at the 2019 Cosafa Cup in Durban in June.
“We had assessed that it was the kind of injury that could be resolved during the tournament. The medical team really worked hard on that.
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