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‘Parreira not a Fifa appointment’

‘Parreira not a Fifa appointment’

Posted: 2009-10-28 15:39

Rumours doing the rounds have it that Fifa influenced Safa to re-hire Carlos Alberto Parreira and that’s why the latter went against the public’s opinion that a local coach could have been a better option.

When the Brazilian was in charge the first time, before leaving in May last year to be with his sick wife, it was thought that his speculated salary of R1.8-million was bankrolled by the world’s football controlling body.
 
Now rumours have surfaced that Parreira, who replaced his compatriot Joel Santana, is a Fifa appointment, as it was allegedly the case in his first stint as Bafana Bafana coach.
 
It is alleged that Fifa influenced the move on both occasions, because they are concerned about the state of South Africa’s senior side.
 
Safa’s vice-president Mwelo Nonkonyana set the record straight while chatting to KickOff.com today.
 
“It is not true at all. There are 32 teams going to participate in the World Cup and Fifa cares about all those teams, not just South Africa.
 
“I once read about what you are telling me now in one of the newspapers and what I can tell you is that we re-hired Parreira because it is in the interests of South African football. We needed an experienced coach,” Nonkonyana says.
 
“Fifa were never in the picture about this specific matter,” he adds.
 
If Bafana Bafana don’t make it past the first round in next year’s World Cup, they will become the first host nation to fail to make it past the first round and apparently that’s Fifa’s concern and that’s why Sepp Blatter and company allegedly bankrolled Parreira’s salary and influenced Safa’s decision to rehire him, but again Nonkonyana dismisses this allegation.
 
“Fifa had no role to play in Parreira’s re-appointment. There was some money Safa once received from Fifa, as advancement to profits that could be made next year.
 
“Some of the money was used to build Safa House and the other could have been used to finance the organization’s running,” Nonkonyana says.

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Lil witchy : 2009-10-28 15:54

Gud luck parrira.wht eva.u'l ned mor dan luck 2 get dos bafuny bafuny bck 2 whateva form or somthin.i sugest u buy imbuzi(goat) 2 perform som ritual jhooowe!

ALEX: 2009-10-28 16:08

please nonkonyana this appointment is not in the interest of sa football,but in the interest of you,nematandani and dany we south africaans need a local coach for heave's sake,be reminded that we south africaans who are passionate about football have decided not to watch any bafana games until south african fools association is changed to football association.pereirra is not that we hate you but we cannot rally behind all this nonsense from safa unfortunately you are part of that because you are hired by them at our expense something we have hated to see,the time for playing gaames is over hard luck perreira wish you loose all yor games and please select mokoena in your team and make him the captain also.i am out and done.

Sizwe : 2009-10-28 16:10

Another good example of poor journalism... Those rumours didn't exist until you sucked them out of your thumb.
With the sponsorships wit safa have, why would they depend on fifa to pay for perreira's salary??
A certain psl coach was once earning a figure of 700k a month, surelly safa can afford a figure twice that.

KGOPAS : 2009-10-28 16:17

Parreira and ted are finished and useless.

KGOPAS : 2009-10-28 16:17

Parreira and ted are finished and useless.

Trevstar: 2009-10-28 16:24

you are in relationship with a girl and suddennly she tell u dat she cant continue with you so she suggest that you jol with her friend.Shimane that you are ,you agree, couple o months later the friend f@cks up, you go back to yur old girl and marry her. only in sa .
Saaaaafa madoda.

TTM: 2009-10-28 16:25

Sizwe : 2009-10-28 16:10
We had to allow the association to set the record straight, otherwise unnecessary rumours persist.

Siyaz: 2009-10-28 16:34

Fifa or Zifa appointment, Parreira is our coach. He is expected to transform the cows like Benson into football players. His wife almost died of cancer and I hope he doesn't quit as a result of a heart attack. That is a mission impossible 7.

Siyaz: 2009-10-28 16:43

Fifa or Zifa appointment, Parreira is our coach. He is expected to transform the cows like Benson into football players. His wife almost died of cancer and I hope he doesn't quit as a result of a heart attack. That is a mission impossible 7.

Mthizo52 : 2009-10-28 18:33

Lets be honest ppl, the media has a hand in distroying our country. Perreira is our coach so what? F*¤!¿k off maaan!!!

Mthizo52 : 2009-10-28 18:33

Lets be honest ppl, the media has a hand in distroying our country. Perreira is our coach so what? F*¤!¿k off maaan!!!

Mthwakazi : 2009-10-28 19:15

Parreira shud perfom the expected miracles.dankie fifa for bankrolling this white elephant,it makes sense now.

philemon : 2009-10-28 19:35

These rumors are good, the evil FIFA did it to us- ha, ha, ha- otherwise why appoint him? For his great record the first time around? That between him and Santana we did not make it to Afcon? We have to have reasons why he was re-appointed. Yes, he won us the COSAFA cup? Well a development team won us the COSAFA cup last year. And a develompent team that couldn't shoot straight lost it this year. Oh come on SAFA give us reasons. We will support our boys anyway but why pay a failure over a million a month to fail again?

comfy: 2009-10-28 20:49

safa sucks the name says it safa in zulu means we are dying i'll always prefare a white man blacks sucks look at rugby n cricket local is lekker stop being steriotype swallow ur pride n hire hunt the best coach n most qualified coach in SA the only people who know how to bring the best out of these players r local coaches

Ballycan: 2009-10-29 08:09

We don't care who hired him back to SAFA, what we are interested in is that the country is not humiliated by Bafana come the World Cup. From now on, no more good football, we want results, period!

S\'busiso: 2009-10-30 08:54

Whether FIFA did that or not,it does n't matter.What matters the most is the results,period.

Swona: 2009-10-30 12:00

let them deny it but, he is Sir Blater's choice