‘I will not pick Bongani Zungu’ – Broos

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has explained why he won’t select the former regular player of the South African national team Bongani Zungu.

Zungu has never featured for Bafana under the leadership of Broos and the Belgian tactician has shed light on why he has been overlooking the former Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder.

“I see what happened (with him) in France. I am very sorry, but this is not a guy who has to be with our group – for the moment,” Broos said after announcing the squad on SABC.

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“I don’t speak only about his qualities as a player, but when you see the troubles he had with Amiens this year, he didn’t play in half of the games because there was trouble.

“It was not because he was not good enough but because there were troubles. Three or four months ago, the trainer and the chairman of the club wanted to get him away.

“What is important is the attitude and the mentality of the player. One player can mess up everything because he doesn’t have the right mentality.

“For the moment, I will not pick Zungu because when I see what happened at Amiens, it can happen here and that I don’t want.”

Broos seem to be adamant about his decision of skipping the so-called experienced players like Zungu while he also mentioned that he sees no need to call Andile Jali and Themba Zwane who are the outstanding performers at Sundowns.

Another Broos’ decision that came as a shock to many was that he left out the in-form Victor Letsoalo who’s been nominated for the PSL Footballer of the Season alongside Peter Shalulile and Zwane. Broos says he doesn’t think that Letsoalo is the kind of striker they want at the moment.

“I have followed Victor again; he is a scorer. But he was scoring nine penalties – so if you take that off from his figures, he is not so good anymore for a striker,” Broos said.

“We have to choose, again. We had Victor with us the game before, he played one game, and I don’t think, for the moment, Victor is what we are looking for.

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“That is the reason. Also, when you compare him with (Khanyiso) Mayo… they are two different strikers.

“Mayo is stronger, he is quicker, and Mayo can keep the ball. Victor is more… okay, he scores, I agree with that. But in the game, he is someone you forget, and then he kicks and scores.”