Mashaba, who was one of the five candidates shortlisted for Bafana Bafana coaching job, failed to make the final cut, as Gordon Igesund and Steve Komphela were chosen as the final two candidates. Who do you think should get the job? Have your say on our Facebook page!
"I'm not going to say much about the interview because it's still an ongoing process and we need to respect that," Mashaba says. "But the criteria was very clear and I knew what was expected from me."
Mashaba, whose first match in the Bafana hot seat came in October 1992 on a caretaker basis, when he led the team to a 1-0 win over Congo in the 1994 World Cup qualifiers, says Bafana still have a great future.
"With every year that passes, the senior national team faces different difficult challenges. When 'Screamer' Tshabalala took over in 1992 he inherited a crop of very talented players who were raw and had no international experience.
"When Clive Barker took over the team was improving, but he faced challenges of club-versus-country as we had a lot of players moving overseas. At the moment we don't have a lot of players in Europe and those who are there are not getting enough game-time.
"So under these circumstances we need a coach that will improvise and turn the negatives into positives. We need someone who can turn our fortunes around.
"The African Nations Cup next year should be used as a springboard, we need to reach at least the semi-final, if we can't get to the final. The World Cup qualifiers are not yet over, we must not lose hope."
Mashaba was at the helm of Bafana Bafana from 2002 and lost his job on the eve of the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Gordon would a merit appointment a wil expect merit results
According to our informants, Daniel “Mambush” Mudau and a ‘light-skinned’ guy from Polokwane visited Mathoho’s father in an attempt to get him to convince his son to put pen-to-paper with the Chloorkop-based club!
Mathoho, as the Siya crew recently revealed, is involved in a serious stalemate between Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns, with the player wanting a move to Naturena. Celtic are keen on selling him to Sundowns, although the player has no ambition of going to Chloorkop.
“Mambush and a light-skinned Sundowns official from Polokwane were last night here in Tshiondo (Venda), Tower’s home town, just before 21h00 in an attempt to get his father to help them get him to sign for Sundowns.
“They arrived at his home and saw his car parked outside but when they ask to see him, his father told them that he wasn’t around. He told them exactly where to get off as he doesn’t know anything about player contracts,” revealed an informant close to the towering defender.
Our informant further revealed that the Sundowns officials promised to come back in the morning but Mathoho’s father insisted that he wants nothing to do with them. The crew’s attempts to get hold of Mudau proved fruitless, as his cell phone was off this morning.
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Bra Shakes is right, it's a pity that it's Gordon's turn........when he's done after the 2014WC, then we can have a re-look at Bra Shakes' unfair dismissal, hhayi manje.
Mzansi forever, until Bobby admits to playing Adolf Hitler in Mbombela. Lol.
Friendly games will always be friendly,where you reserve the best players for tough games ahead.
Besides....There's no place called Tshiondo in Venda, that's a lie!
I've even confirmed with mash-doo, and he also affirms that he's never heard of it, nor had he ever received an order to deliver 'power' to such an address before! Lol.
Gorden is not a fan of fancy futball(Litsolony/Shaba/Steven)he need dedicated and desciplined players.
If given the task,most current players will get a chop and new deserving coming in(T.september)
So , please Vezi'khanda , don't organize your dirty E20 to Bafana camp , cause most of your favourite players won't make it.
There you have it folks, Shakes said so himself and I said the same thing just before Pitso was fired when he made excuses that he "doesn't have enough time to prepare a squad." That was utter bogus nonsense because not just Barker alone, but Trott and Queiroz had to deal with club-versus-country problem even to the point where players were reporting to camp a day or few hours before Kick off and yet they still managed to get results.
So Shakes is right, it's all about improvisation when it comes to the national team and how we can turn our fortunes around. I'll say it again, SA has NEVER been blessed with strikers and probably never will be. However, what Barker and other smart coaches did was form systems and formations that not only relied on strikers to score, but enabled the likes of Mkhalele, Khumalo, Moeti, Tinkler, Ngobe, Thabo Mngomeni and etc to score because they knew long ago that strikers is something we don't have.
England itself only has one striker; Wayne Rooney! And they're not complaining! Come one Mzansi, take these words of Shakes and realise that we HAVE players; it's just that we need to select them properly, play the right system and play them in the right positions based on their strengths and abilities.
My proposal: Gordon Head coach with Komphela as his assistant and Shakes as Technical Advisor.
Will Gordon with SA AFCON - NO
Will Gordon qualify for Brasil 2014 - a Big NO
There you have it people, Grodon will be fired before he even start this job and this is a fact.
It's a pity, a proven international coach has not been short-listed. Why was Shakes fired in the first place? In the qualifiers he used to win at home and at least get a draw against the likes of Ivory Coast, away. Anyone who beta Ivory Coast 3-1 and Togo coaching Swaziland has nothing more to prove on an international level.
Good luck to skop n donner, flavour of the moment Gordon, who coached African Wanderers into oblivion. He obviously has the majority of your votes, so as a South African, I will support him anyway.
I would have gone for Shakes with my eyes,closed.