Amajimbos lose in Burkina Faso
More woe for SA youth teams
Posted: 2010-09-12 21:15
Safa Technical Director Serame Letsoaka blamed the referee after Amajimbos were booted out of the African Youth Championships on Saturday.
South Africa’s Under-17s lost 2-0 to Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou to eventually lose on the away goal rule after a 4-2 victory in Tembisa a fortnight ago.
This follows some horror results for Amajita and Amaglug-glug in recent weeks, and an embarrassing 10-1 defeat for Bantwana against Germany in the Under-17 Women’s World Cup earlier in the week.
But Letsoaka, who was acting as assistant to stand-in coach Mandla Mazibuko, blamed the defeat on the referee from Benin.
“The first half was fine and we were dominating,” he tells KickOff.com. “In fact, we should have scored at least one goal.
“But in the second half it was like a different referee was in charge – some of the decisions were shocking. The Burkinabe scored their first goal which was legitimate, but the second was just non-existent.
“We tried to raise our concerns and the match was held up for a few minutes, but no-one listened and the goal stood. We continued with the match and scored a goal, but it was disallowed for no good reason.
“The referee kept overruling the assistant referee on several occasions, which showed that the man in the middle was on a mission of his own.”
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