Bafana Bafana’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde in Praia on Friday might be one of the most important games the national team have faced.Win on the artificial surface of the 15,000-seater Estadio Nacional de Cabo Verde (kick-off: 8.30pm SA time) and Cape Verde’s already slim World Cup hopes will be dashed.SA would then be confident of the return victory in Durban on Tuesday.Two wins‚ especially taking into account the two more-than-likely tight West African derbies between Senegal and Burkina Faso‚ would leave Bafana in the driving seat for their first World Cup qualification since 2002.That qualification would confirm a turnaround in South African football and the emergence of a generation with the potential to finally replace the successful 1996 Africa Cup of Nations-winning to 2002 World Cup-qualifying line-ups.A failure to qualify will mean that Mulomowandau Mathoho‚ Keagan Dolly‚ Bongani Zungu‚ Themba Zwane et al are just not quite ready yet.It is no wonder Stuart B...
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