adminCape Town – The South African Football Association (Safa) confirmed that all Bafana Bafana players selected to represent the country in the upcoming African Nations Championship (Chan) tournament are available in camp. Bafana will be based in Cape Town for the opening round of the competition and will host neighbours Mozambique in the first game at the Cape Town Stadium.
The latest players to join the squad in the Mother City are Kaizer Chiefs’ Siphiwe Tshabalala, Itumeleng Khune, Tefu Mashemaite, Bernard Parker and Wits goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs.
According to a report on the Safa website, those players are currently undergoing medicals – as stipulated by the competition’s rules.
Gordon Igesund’s men will be hoping to win the third edition of the competition which will run from January 11 to February 1.
Bafana are in group A alongside Mozambique, Mali and African champions Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Steve Komphela has bounced back quickly into management and was appointed as Maritzburg United’s new coach yesterday.
He is the third coach of the season for the struggling KwaZulu-Natal club, who saw Ernst Middendorp go to Bloemfontein Celtic in October and then fired Clinton Larsen after just eight games in charge.
Komphela had been sacked by Free State Stars last month but is now in charge of his fifth different club.- Supersport.
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