FINDING THE NET
MNINAWA NTLOKO: Baxter and Bafana ask us to put hope before experience
Baxter and his players believe they can beat their more fancied opponents home and away
It feels like déjà vu doesn’t it? Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter and his players are pleading with us to forget about the heartbreaks of the past and believe that SA can qualify for the 2018 World Cup. They are asking us to once again lay ourselves bare and trust that they will beat Senegal at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on Friday night and repeat the trick away from home in Dakar next Tuesday. They are asking us to have faith that they have can raise their game to dizzier heights than the cynics imagine and succeed where a succession of Bafana teams have come up short in the past. But you can’t blame those fellow citizens who are reluctant to reinvest their emotions, given our at times abusive relationship with the national team. It seems as if it was only yesterday when former Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund also asked the nation’s soccer lovers to have faith — four years ago, when qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was hanging by the thinnest of thread...
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