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MNINAWA NTLOKO: Don’t be surprised when Special One rides Bafana again
South African football’s own Special One, Pitso Mosimane, will become Bafana Bafana coach a lot sooner than many realise. This might come as a surprise because Mosimane has kept a very wide berth between himself and the job out of which his South African Football Association (Safa) employers unceremoniously forced him in June 2012. Granted, the Special One has told all who care to listen he’d rather stick it out at Mamelodi Sundowns than return to a job in which he’d be about as safe as a pet hamster sharing accommodation with a starving black mamba. But if you understand the passion that drives one of the hardest working coaches in African football, Bafana are a frontier unconquered by a man named the best mentor on the continent a few months ago. He has unfinished business at Safa House and if his recent words to this columnist are anything to go by, Mosimane has big fish to fry in the bigger scheme of things.I last saw Mosimane a few days ago when Sundowns had just beaten Morocco...
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