The executive’s sea of troubles include an unsolved match-fixing controversy and a power struggle, while football slowly sinks.
The SABC has agreed to pay R3-million in order to televise Saturday’s African Cup of Nations qualifier between Bafana Bafana and Sierra Leone.
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/ 11 October 2010
Safa was "extremely disappointed" with the SABC’s failure to broadcast the Sunday night fixture between Bafana Bafana and Sierra Leone.
The ANC Youth League on Thursday congratulated Leslie Sedibe on his appointment as chief executive officer of the SA Football Association.
It is 10 years since the South Africa Football Association (Safa) first announced its intention to host the sport’s biggest showpiece, the World Cup. Today, the idea, first mooted by former Safa president Solomon ”Stix” Morewa, is less than 740 days from being realised. The Mail & Guardian tracks the history of South Africa’s biggest sporting fantasy.
Though Carlos Alberto Parreira will quit his post as coach of Bafana Bafana to be with his ill wife, he remain a technical adviser to the team, he announced on Monday. Meanwhile, the sports website GloboEsporte reported late on Monday that Joel Santana, coach of Brazil’s Flamengo club, would succeed Parreira.
Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira announced his resignation on Monday as coach of 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa. World Cup-winning coach Parreira, who served 15 months of a three-and-a-half-year contract aimed at transforming the struggling national team, quit because his Brazil-based wife is ill after recent major surgery.