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| What is ailing South African football? |
| 2022-10-31 |
| [Aljazeera] In the early 1990s, South African men’s football team carried the hopes of millions, that it would bring together a divided nation at the end of apartheid. In July 1992, the team was readmitted to FIFA after a nearly 30 year ban. However, Bafana Bafana have failed to make a lasting impact and observers are divided on the reasons. Some former national team greats say its problems come from a lack of consistency, others point to the absence of South Africans in top European leagues as an indicator of player quality. Others say the players, and the team, need to develop their own footballing identity instead of imitating the way teams develop in Europe. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 First of all, it's soccer ... What more do you need? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-10-31 19:01 |
| #8 Magpie gets it, but no glass house rock throwing please :-( |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-10-31 18:10 |
| #7 Nepotism, tribalism and corruption. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-10-31 17:05 |
| #6 Any sport that looks like it was designed by committee deserves to die: you dress one guy up in different clothes and make him stand in a playpen, reminds me of the last kid picked in a schoolyard baseball game, field markings look like a hockey rink and basketball court mated, and score ends in a tie, with time kept by some dude with a stopwatch and they add time ‘ just because.’ Kind of like a platypus or pontiac aztec. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2022-10-31 15:41 |
| #5 Maybe the other teams need to play with their shoelaces tied together. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-31 14:10 |
| #4 #3 That’s the Vodacom Cup 3rd tier, I don’t think the Sprinboks have a quote system yet Super Rugby is in such disarray the Stormers, Bulls and Sharks now compete Europe rather than against NZ and Australia. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2022-10-31 14:08 |
| #3 If its how I understand SA rugby, its diversity quotas. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-10-31 13:45 |
| #2 the players, and the team, need to develop their own footballing identity Or maybe just, you know, score some goals. You don't need a whole lot to win a soccer game. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-10-31 12:53 |
| #1 ....observers are divided on the reasons. Is it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma ? NO ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-10-31 12:04 |