Junior Agrees With Broos Over Main SA Issue

Former Kaizer Chiefs winger Junior Khanye has agreed with Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos about the standard of local football, but points the finger at development.

Over the past few months, Broos has repeatedly commented about the standard of local football in South Africa, saying it is not at the required level for Bafana to compete at international level.

Khanye, speaking to David Kappel in Edition 82 of iDiski Times newspaper, said Broos was speaking the truth, but it is something that people in South Africa have been saying for years.

“It’s the brutal truth,” Khanye told iDiski Times.

“We’ve been saying it but people don’t want to take notice, [now] because it’s said by a white person, Hugo Broos from Belgium with a high profile and now people are noticing it.

“But we’ve been saying this for years, it’s just that we don’t have all the qualifications for coaching and stuff. I believe the best way of learning coaches is how to play. Your playing career will determine your career as a coach.

“If they can just listen to us and other people who have taught us things like Ted Dumitru, Pitso Mosimane, Farouk Khan, I think then the national team could go in the right direction, with the national team and junior sides.

“But it’s far, now we’re not going in the right direction, you mustn’t be fooled by the Mozambique game. We played 1-1 against Angola, we were lucky to get away with a draw. Our penalty was not a penalty and Angola were superior technically and the way they shifted the ball.

“Also, they played away from here, here in South Africa in Mbombela. I say we mustn’t lie to ourselves. Yes, we’ve got the talent but wrong development.

“Why do some players in South Africa need to be loaned out before they can come back and perform, they need several seasons to perform. At an early age, at 16 or 17 they don’t make the starting XIs.

“We need proper, proper development. We need to identify coaches who know how. Look at Brazil, here you bring in coaches from the outside, in Brazil they’ve got a lot of coaches from Brazil. They believe in their philosophy that they developed.

“There are not many foreign coaches and foreign players there. They believe in themselves and look, they went back to No.1 in the FIFA rankings. So I believe, even us, we must start doing that.”

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You can read Khanye’s full interview in edition 82 of iDiski Times, which is available for free on our website.