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/ 22 September 2006
The status of the commercial wing, the financial recovery plan and the position of chief executive Raymond Hack are expected to dominate the South African Football Association’s (Safa) 14th annual general meeting, which starts in Johannesburg on Friday. Early this year Safa announced that it intends to establish a separate company to run and administer the affairs of all the national teams.
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/ 8 September 2006
Senior individuals in local football are trying to sabotage plans to rebuild the national team and the public profile of the South African Football Association (Safa) through an elaborate strategy that would ultimately undermine the work of newly appointed Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, and force him out of his job not long after he assumes his duties next February.
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/ 8 September 2006
The South African Football Association has included no measurable performance assessment plan in the lucrative four-year contract signed by Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira this week. And Safa has no road map or turnaround strategy for the struggling national team in the run-up to hosting the World Cup in 2010.
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/ 1 September 2006
For local football supporters, the most indelible memory of South Africa’s six encounters with Congo Brazzaville is from August 16 nine years ago. On a mild Saturday afternoon, Bafana Bafana’s lone striker, Phil Masinga, ensured the national team’s first ever qualification for the World Cup in time for the 1998 tournament in France.
Despite repeated denials by South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack that World Cup 2010 head Danny Jordaan had anything to do with the appointment of Carlos Alberto Parreira as national coach, Jomo Sono has continued to attack Jordaan, accusing him of having imposed his will on the selection panel.
With the advent of the Vodacom Challenge, the Telkom Charity Cup, which takes place at FNB Stadium this weekend, has lost its status as opening salvo of the season. It is probably time for the South African Football Association to step in and demand a review of both tournaments.
On Monday Parliament will pass into law the 2010 Fifa World Cup Special Measures Bill. The proposed new Act will have a bearing on numerous issues, particularly the spaces traditionally used by informal traders immediately outside the stadiums. There has been concern that the economic guarantees will, in essence, preclude hawkers from directly benefiting from the spin-offs.
Carlos Alberto Parreira, who quit his post as head coach of Brazil on Wednesday following the South Americans’ poor showing at the World Cup, has agreed to come to South Africa to take charge of Bafana Bafana. A source on the South African Football Association (Safa) executive says Parreira has agreed to the financial terms. All that is required now is his signature.
Former Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said in an interview published on Thursday that he expects to be named as new coach of South Africa, hosts of the 2010 World Cup. The 63-year-old made the revelation to Thursday’s Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, a day after he resigned from his post with Brazil.
Carlos Alberto Parreira, whose future with Brazil is uncertain after the five-time champions were surprisingly eliminated in the quarterfinals of this year’s World Cup in Germany, has re-emerged as an odds-on favourite to be the next coach of Bafana Bafana.