Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has a surprise in store for the wayward players who partied up a storm after the 2018 World Cup qualifying defeat to Cape Verde in Durban in September. The players started to arrive in camp on Sunday ahead of Saturday’s must-win 2018 World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso and Baxter said he would hand them a new code of conduct‚ warning the party animals in the squad to remain professional at all times. ‘‘There’s a complete new code of conduct‚" Baxter said on Monday. ‘‘It is not completely new to them, but it will be a much more extensive one and there will be a presentation named, The 24-hour Professional. It is basically reminding people that we are 24-hour professionals nowadays. ‘‘When I played in England, we were two-hour professionals. We came‚ we trained‚ we worked really hard and then everybody went to the pub. "It has become 24 hours now because the demands on our jobs are so much heavier that if you are not 24 hours professionally‚ you ...
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