Plans are in place to get Bafana Bafana players in Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates’ squads to report directly to the national team’s camp from their CAF Champions League away games on March 16, by DanieMothowagae
players in Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates’ squads to report directly to the national team’s camp from theirSafa has acceded to Bafana coach Stuart Baxter’s request to get all the players to report for camp in Sfax, Tunisia, from March 17.
Mamelodi Sundowns will be in Morocco for their final group stage game against Wydad Casablanca, and Orlando Pirates will be in Conakry for their clash against AC Horoya of Guinea.Sundowns and Bucs account for seven players in Bafana’s qualifier against Nigeria in November.The Downs quartet is Themba Zwane, Hlompho Kekana, Tiyani Mabunda and Lebohang Maboe; while Bucs had Thembinkosi Lorch, Vincent Pule and Innocent Maela.
“In terms of preparations, what we were looking at was one and a half days if you take away travel, some people who can be late because of CAF or some people from Europe ... that was going to be one full day’s training and one prematch [training],” Baxter told the media at a breakfast early last month.
Bafana has to avoid defeat to reach the 24-nation continental championships in Egypt, scheduled to be played from June 21 to July 19.
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