‘We were not ready to face Ghana’ – Hugo Broos admits
The senior national football team of South Africa, the Bafana Bafana had a bad year in 2021 after failing to qualify for both the AFCON 2021 in Cameroon this year and the FIFA World Cup playoffs.
After months of controversy, South Africa Head Coach, Hugo Broos, has finally conceded his side just weren’t good enough against Ghana, admitting Bafana Bafana were not ready for the game.
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“The challenges, I think, [that came] after the qualifiers for the World Cup, we evaluated the team and saw that there were some weaknesses, certainly in the game against Ghana.
The team was not ready to play such a game,.
“We saw that Ghana started the game very aggressively and we didn’t have an answer to that, so that was one of the things we saw, and therefore we started to look for other players and see where we could improve the team,” he said.
Despite leading their group going into the final matchday, South Africa were defeated 1-0 by Ghana’s Black Stars, thanks to an Andre Ayew penalty.
South Africa contested the legitimacy of the penalty awarded to Ghana, and officially filed a complaint to FIFA over officiating in that game.
However, world football governing body, FIFA, after investigation, threw out that petition, ending SA’s hopes of making the World Cup.
