“There were a lot of positives to be drawn from the match. I don’t care about the quality of the opponent,” he said at the post-match press conference after the first of five tune-up games on home soil before the World Cup opener against Mexico on June 11.
“It’s a big improvement. We are now in our final stage of preparations and we are looking for performance and results.
“Results build confidence and as for the performance, the players look more comfortable on the ball. We still need more penetration but I feel it is coming,” the Brazilian said.
“We now have stronger opponents coming and they will give us a more physical challenge. We are in the final build-up phase but this is a good start.”
Parreira said the game against Bulgaria, Colombia and Denmark would all be progressively tougher.
Meanwhile, Bulgarian coach Stanimir Stoilov has announced his squad that will play Bafana at Soccer City on May 24.
Stoilov added six locally-based players to the squad at the weekend, including Lokomotiv Sofia striker Martin Kamburov, who has been roped in following the retirement of captain Dimitar Berbatov from international football.
The Bulgarians will play an international friendly against Belgium on Wednesday, before flying to South Africa for their match on May 24.
The Bulgarian squad is:
Goalkeepers: Nikolay Mihaylov (Twente, Netherlands), Georgi Petkov ( Levski)
Defenders: Stanislav Manolev (PSV Eindhoven, Holland), Stanislav Angelov (Energie Cottbus, Germany), Veselin Minev (Levski), Zhivko Milanov (Vaslui, Romania), Plamen Nikolov (Litex), Ivan Ivanov (Alania Vladikavkaz, Russia), Pavel Vidanovo ( CSKA)
Midfielders: Stilian Petrov (Aston Villa, England), Chavdar Yankov and Velizar Dimitrov (Metalurg Donetsk, Ukraine), Ivan Stoyanov (Alania Vladikavkaz, Russia), Blagoi Georgiev (Terek Grozny, Russia), Georgi Peev (Amkar Perm, Russia)
Forwards: Ivelin Popov (Litex Lovech), Martin Kamburov (Lokomotiv Sofia), Dimitar Rangelov (Borussia Dortmund, Germany), Valeri Bojinov (Parma, Italy)
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shapa Modise shapaaaa!!!!!!!!!
soegs: 2010-05-14 12:31
he's talkig rubbish again this boy....empty promises...nxa!!
Pienaar will show you how its all done, my boy....ayeye!!
All psl trophies : 2010-05-14 12:34
Let's accept the fact that teko is finished.he shud b replaced wit matti,we still got tym.
Thabang: 2010-05-14 12:38
Haaaa TEKO, we been down this ride before my friend; maybe you should just say "no comment" to all media questions about your form and only let your feet do the talking.
But I AM YOUR No.1 FAN dude, and I wish you do well for our COUNTRY.
The KHOSI One
Teko dont just give us yr word 4 it just go out there & show us what u capable of in da field of play. we need u 2 be @ yr best & hopefully u can take us back 2 daz of Shoes & Doc u & Steven..........
Gud luck 4 sunday 2 da whole team
**** where r u? Teko making empty promises? N!xxxxxxxxxxx
STOP fooling us with empty promises Teko. FORM doesn't just come overnite. If I were d coach, you would hev been relegated to the grand stand by NOW. By the way, we hev Tshaba, Skillo, Killer and Benni in d eighteen area.
My advice to you would be watch and learn
************ Teko making empty promises? Now he has delivered why dont you praise him?
this is one player, who is in most people's lips yet he has done nothing for his team, since joining my beloved team he has won SAFA awards yet his team only won charity cup, one wonders how football in this country is being run, we will see, maybe during this game it will be proven that, it's time we stop fooling ourselces and bench this guy, maybe he will prove us wrong!
****hehehehe Teko is giving you sleepless night.
Mphela I think you must live and play abroad there are so many things you have to learn as a striker, for instance when to release and delay a ball. I hope you can learn from Nomvete as a striker dont release a ball when there are no strikers in the box wait untill they are two or three.
Khuboni, mpinsthi I was watching you , to find out what makes you a favourite, I was impressed out of 10 passes you make whether long or short you are excellent I give 8/10 only thing to make is to move abroad to work on your physicall ability , keep it up
Let me quote Modise "Being the captain gives me the courage to lead from the front and we haven't lost a game since I became the captain."
still nt impressive he is nt doing what is suppose to do, he is given a free role, what we want from him:
1) create more balls in the penalty area
2) move foward put pressure
3) whenever is in the ball he doesnt take defenders up
5) score goals
6) when he is lossing the ball he cant recover the ball, in that instance look at Shaba he can distribute and do the markings/tackles hard compared to Teko,Shaba reminds me of Lekolea he was very good in markings when lossing the balls, I can even consider Jele over Teko
Tshabalala improves each n every day wel done boss, i lyk ur fighting spirit if only pinaar can deposit de same spirit then we might reach de final.
alililili! NOW IS DE TIME! IT'S HERE!
hehehehehe!!!! sorer loser!!!!! Teko create many scoring opprtunities many times, they were not scoring. The free Kick shabba converted was created by King Teko.
The fact is Teko created many goals for BB, compare to pienaar.