Tensions escalate as PSL boycotts Safa's congress: The simmering war between the PSL and Safa seems to have reached a crescendo after the league announced yesterday it would boycott the local football governing body’s congress this weekend.
In a statement, the PSL said its “executive committee unanimously resolved” it must “not attend the workshop/Indaba or the ordinary Safa congress”, in what is a clear indication that relations between the organisations – forever at each other’s throats for reasons known only to them – are anything but harmonised.
While Sowetan has seen the 13-point agenda, it is understood the PSL may have been fearing what an insider said could be an “ambush” about certain outstanding matters, including club licensing, which most clubs in the league have failed to comply with. In a scathing attack, Steenbok made it clear this weekend’s meeting should be more decisive in ensuring compliance, and directly fingered the PSL as the main reason for South African football’s stagnation. “Players are on their own because the coaches are not qualified,” Steenbok said, citing Musa Nyatama and Morgan Mammila from Swallows.
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