Safa mum on Komphela's future

Safa president Kirsten Nemantandani dodged the issue of Steve Komphela's future today

Posted: 1 July 2012 Time: 04:23 pm

Safa president Kirsten Nemantandani dodged the issue of Steve Komphela's future following the appointment of Gordon Igesund as the new Bafana Bafana coach.

Igesund and Komphela were the final two candidates and did their final presentations earlier today, with the former eventually emerging the victor; the popular choice if a recent poll on KickOff.com is anything to go by.
 
But when quizzed on what would happen with Komphela, who had served as an assistant coach under Pitso Mosimane and who took over caretaker responsibilities following his dismissal, Nemantandani dodged the issue.
 
"This is another process we are now going to engage in. The coach, together with the technical committee, will come up with what it is that he will need," he said. 
 
"We normally allow the coach to make suggestions, but of course the technical committee will be working very, very closely to decide who it is he will be working with."
 
Asked whether Safa wasted time in waiting this long to get rid of Mosimane and appoint a new coach, Nemantandani was equally cautious.
 
"Yes and no. No, because we couldn't anticipate the future. Yes, because if he was appointed then we would have had ample time to go through the processes. At the end of the day we had to give the coach we had a chance, but unfortunately it didn't work out."
 
Follow me on Twitter @KickOffCooper 

Article by: Ryan Cooper

Add New Comment

Comments Login Form

Forgotten your password?

Your comments on this story...

Terms of use:

The comments posted do not reflect the views of KickOff.com. Users are reminded that no misuse of this comment facility will be tolerated. Any abusive, racist or inflammatory comments will be deleted and the user banned.

Please report abusive posts to editor@kickoff.com. Logged in users can select "report" next to the offending comment.

S.A's leading price comparison site