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/ 3 September 2009
Bafana Bafana must take the game to Germany when they face the three-times World champions in a friendly international on Saturday.
Midfielder Teko Modise rifled home a second half equaliser to earn 2010 World Cup hosts SA a 2-2 draw with Australia in a friendly on Tuesday.
It was almost with a measure of relief that Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira announced his ”strongest available” 22-man squad on Wednesday to tackle foxy world champions Italy in their Siena lair on October 17.
South Africa star striker Benni McCarthy will end a 19-month international exile when he plays against Zambia in Cape Town next weekend. The Blackburn Rovers striker, second highest English Premiership scorer last year, was included on Wednesday in a 22-man squad for an African Nations Cup Group 11 qualifier on September 9 at Newlands Stadium.