The South African Football Association (SAFA) have rubbished claims that Bafana Bafana coach has left his position as head coach.
A report by the South African had shockingly stated that Broos had vacated his position and returned to his native Belgium and will not be in charge of Bafana’s AFCON qualifiers against Libya and Morocco, with assistant Helman Mkhalele taking charge in his absence.
However, SAFA CEO Advocate Tebogo Motlanthe has labelled those stories as “fiction”, and it was always the norm that Mkhalele would handle the COSAFA and CHAN tournaments.
“These claims are absolutely false and it is troubling that they were published without anyone seeing the need to contact SAFA. This is shocking conduct,” the SAFA CEO said via a statement.
“It has always been the norm that the COSAFA tournament and CHAN are handled by coach Mkhalele. Even last year before he got Covid-19 at the COSAFA tournament in Nelson Mandela Bay, coach Helman (Mkhalele) was in charge of the team.
“That was also the case with this year’s two tournaments. It is malicious and untrue that Broos is no longer Bafana Bafana coach.”
