/ 16 February 1999

BUCKLEY MISSING BAFANA TRAINING

THE South African Football Association has complained to world governing body Fifa about midfielder Delron Buckley’s German club Bochum and its reluctance to release him from the team. Safa chief executive Raymond Hack has written to Fifa about Buckley, who has not yet arrived in South Africa for training Bafana Bafana’s Cosafa Cup clash against Botswana on Saturday. In another worry for coach Trott Moloto, Kaiser Chiefs striker Siyabonga Nomvete, is out the squad with a knee injury. The team left for a training camp in Mmabatho on Monday.