Friendly Matches Important for Performance Not Results, States Hugo Broos!

Friendly Matches Important for Performance Not Results, States Hugo Broos! The national team will face two matches later this month.

Bafana Bafana will play against Guinea and France in international friendlies. Head coach Hugo Broos is looking to gauge the performance of the team, rather than look for results.

The last time the national team took to the field was against Ghana in their infamous 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier. This was in October 2021.

Broos believes that they were not ready to play in such a high stakes match.

“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.” He told the SAFA website.

“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.

“So those two games [against France and Guinea] are not really about the results but more about preparation for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in June. So, there will be new players, we will see if they are playing well in their clubs and then see if they perform for Bafana, which is a level higher.

“Let us hope that they improve the team. So, we are using these games to be ready for June and know that we have a stronger team than the team that played in the [World Cup] qualifiers.”  

Both matches will take place in Belgium. Friendly Matches Important for Performance Not Results, States Hugo Broos!