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Four-year deal for Pitso

Posted: 2010-07-15 19:01

Pitso Mosimane has been confirmed as the new coach of Bafana Bafana after being unveiled at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday.

The former Bafana assistant coach has signed a four-year deal that sees him tasked with qualifying the country for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Mosimane had already been named as the only candidate for the job earlier this month by the South African Football Association, but his contract still had to be negotiated.

The 45-year-old replaces the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, under whom he had worked over the last four years. His appointment keeps a promise the football association made to appoint a local to the job once the 2010 World Cup was out of the way.

“I feel extremely privileged to be filing Carlos Alberto Parreira’s shoes. I thank both the football association and Parreira for having confidence in me and I know I’m the right person for the job,” he told reporters.

Mosimane’s first task will be to try and qualify South Africa for the 2012 African Nations Cup finals. The qualifying campaign begins in September with a home game against Niger, but a much more difficult assignment against African champions Egypt, who are in the same group, awaits him early next year.

South Africa’s side have shown a major improvement in form over the last six months, and on Wednesday jumped 17 places in the latest FIFA rankings. But they did not manage to exceed expectations at the World Cup and were eliminated after just three matches, becoming in the process the first host nation to fail to get past the first round.

Mosimane had a previous spell as South Africa's caretaker coach, winning three, drawing three and losing just one of the seven matches for which he was in charge.

He is a former striker who won three caps for the country and played for several leading South African clubs before leaving for Greece, where he played at Ionikos for six years, and brief stints in Belgium and Qatar before retiring.

South Africa has had 15 different coaches in the last 18 years since returning from a long-standing FIFA ban.

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Recent Comments (9) :

bobo: 2010-07-15 20:11

congratulation Mr.Mosimane,, and editor plz tell us the salary of this guy. since the revenue of the country increased dramatically after the world cup, hope he is toping the list in africa when it comes to the earning of the afrikaans coaches

KidKudu7: 2010-07-15 20:30

Good job SAFA for making Pitso the Bafana Bafana head coach. I'm elated by these news as Ive been waiting for so long for a local coach.

Now to your Pitso, dont try to qualify Bafana Bafana to the Nations Cup in 2012, you MUST DO IT, got it, get it, yeah right. Secondly, we need to see these boys in Brazil in 2014, and you MUST ENSURE THEY GET TO THE SECOND ROUND there, got it, get it, yeah right.

I'm 100% behind you you in support and I know you can DO IT!!!

KidKudu7: 2010-07-15 20:32

Good job SAFA for making Pitso the Bafana Bafana head coach. I'm elated by these news as I've been waiting for so long for a local coach.

Now to you Pitso, dont try to qualify Bafana Bafana to the Nations Cup in 2012, you MUST DO IT, got it, get it, yeah right. Secondly, we need to see these boys in Brazil in 2014, and you MUST ENSURE THEY GET TO THE SECOND ROUND there, got it, get it, yeah right.

I'm 100% behind you in support and I know you can DO IT!!!

fire: 2010-07-15 20:32

No comment!

lagivo : 2010-07-15 20:59

pitso plz change de captain get someone fresh and look forward with him mbazo is done....thank yu!

bobo: 2010-07-15 20:59

(BREAKING NEWS)Shabalala got a reward from N.Mandela FOR his perfomance at the world cup,, father of the nation just donated one of his daughter to Shabalala and wedding arrangement is going well. pareira is invited as one of the guest..
Date of the wedding will be anounced next week Monday. Dont miss the THE SUN OF MONDAY

erico: 2010-07-15 23:14






Ghana’s preparations for the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign will get under way with a friendly against South Africa.

Milovan Rajevac’s Black Stars will return to the 2010 World Cup host nation for an international friendly against the Bafana Bafana on August 11.

The game, the first for both sides after the Word Cup finals will be played at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.

Ghana would use the friendly as build-up to the African Nations Cup qualifying in September against Swaziland, who play a similar style like the Bafana Bafana.

The road to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in 2012 gets under way on the first weekend of September against Swaziland with the Black Stars playing the first group match away from home.

The game in the Rainbow Nation will also serve as a sign of appreciation for the wonderful support accorded Ghana during the World Cup, as the Black Stars return to a familiar ground.

Source: Ghanafa.org




Bruno: 2010-07-16 09:34

Its teams like Ghana that will give us the real test of our strength. Congrats Pitso & pls take care of the nation as u did before.

The time Pitso was in charge we played good flowing football & I blive we gonna continue.

Kea go lebogisa Ntate Mosimane

Ziggynet: 2010-07-16 11:03

I fail to understand why he Is earning less than half of what Joel "Big Nose" Santana and Carlos "The resurrected" Parreira, used to earn. Is that the Value of this guy or is the other half what Leslie and Kirsten will put in their pockets...