Former Bafana Bafana striker Patrick Mayo is not happy with the group of players selected to represent South Africa in the 2024 Africa Cup Of Nations.
Mayo who represented the national team with flying colours, feels the current head coach Hugo Broos does not look at performance when selecting players but instead goes for those he prefers to work with.
The local football fraternity was left shell-shocked recently when the Belgian left out the current top scorer in the DStv Premiership Khanyisa Mayo [with 7 goals] and instead opted for Evidence Makgopa who has found the net only four times in 13 appearances.
"I'm seriously not happy with the selection," Mayo tells KickOff.
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"Some of the players that deserve to be in the national team were left behind for no reason. It seems performance doesn't count.
"I don't have a problem that Hugo Broos selected many players from Mamelodi Sundowns, some of them deserve to be there. We cannot run away from that.
"But as for Evidence Makgopa, he was not supposed to be there. I'm not saying this because my child has been left out [Khanyisa Mayo], but a lot of people have been asking why a top goalscorer is not there.
"Where is Given Msimango? Fagrie Lakay? Because they deserve to be in Ivory Coast.
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"At the moment all these players have been on top of their form. I think he's got his own players.
"The way I see it we will only play the three games and come back home. We won't make it to the group stages.
"We have a weak team, how can we play a draw with Lesotho when your first game in the AFCON is against Mali? We should be beating countries like Lesotho by nine goals to show we are preparing for a big tournament."
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