In their first Afcon 2025 qualifier in September, Bafana drew 2-2 with Uganda at home at Orlando Stadium. It may have, at the time, seemed like the nation’s run to the semi-finals in the 2024 Afcon may have been their peak.
Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos on Friday said he was close to quitting recently, as his side’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers did not start well. Picture: Sia Kambou/AFP
Of course, Bafana would go on to finish top of Group K in convincing fashion as they ended winning four of their matches and drawing two.However, Broos revealed he was ready to pack it all in had Bafana not improved after that first qualifier. “It was a little bit tough in the beginning, but I knew what I was doing and you need also a little bit of luck. You can say what you want, but if the results are not following, then it stops. And then from that moment we progressed nearly every game.
“From my side, I was in 1986 in Mexico with the Belgium team in the World Cup. And once you were there, you won't be there a second or a third or a fourth time.
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