Coach keeps faith with youngsters, with two 30-plus stars overlooked for selection
MARC STRYDOMBafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has beefed up the Orlando Pirates contingent in his preliminary squad for October’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Ethiopia.
In August Broos raised eyebrows when he included just one Pirates player, Innocent Maela, in the initial squad for the qualifiers against Zimbabwe and Ghana. Maela failed to make the final squad. In keeping with Broos’ emphasis on youth, there again was no place for 30-plus stars Themba Zwane, 32, or former Bafana captain Thulani Hlatshwayo, 31, while Amiens SC’s Bongani Zungu, 28, also remains in the cold.
Also included was Royal AM striker Victor Letsoalo, whose brace was the catalyst to a dramatic 4-1 humbling of Chiefs on Saturday and who caught the eye in a Bafana developmental team that won the Cosafa Cup in Gqeberha in July.
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