Orlando Pirates assistant coach Rhulani Mokwena has been brought in as an observer and to gain experience with Bafana Bafana in the upcoming tournament in Zambia‚ with an eye to him possibly being senior national coach one day. That was Bafana coach Stuart Baxter’s explanation for the invitation extended to Mokwena to join SA’s technical team in the four-nation friendly tournament in Zambia. "Rhulani is obviously one of the outstanding young coaches in the country‚" Baxter said when naming a squad of young players together with experienced ones at Safa House in Johannesburg on Tuesday. "I would like to think he does have ambitions‚ and I would like to think that he can learn from the experience." Baxter was asked if this concept would become a regular fixture with the national team. "Yes‚ we want this to be a thing that we do more often. But you can’t do it at every camp with a different coach pitching up‚" he said. "Maybe for some of the coaches, it will be a recurring thing. Yes‚ ...
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