Stars’ coach Jan Poulsen has called off a proposed international friendly match against Chad in order to accommodate the South Africans.
The Fifa website listed Tanzania to be playing South Africa on May 14 and then Chad on May 17, but Poulsen said that he was only aware of the South Africa game and had instructed the Tanzanian Football Federation to cancel the Chad match.
The secretary general of the TFF Angetile Osiah confirmed this, explaining that the Chadian Football Federation had not informed them about the proposed match, adding they only learned about the match when they saw the fixture on the Fifa website.
The Tanzanian Citizen newspaper quoted Poulsen as saying that he could not play two friendly games within three days and accused match agents of releasing the information to the Fifa website before confirming the match with the TFF.
“With our match against South Africa on May 14 it will be impossible to then play Chad three days later and so the latter game has been called off. But the South Africa game will provide us with a perfect tune-up ahead of the African Nations Cup qualifier against Central African Republic in early June.
“We need to play against a highly-rated team like Bafana Bafana,” continues Poulsen.
“Bafana Bafana will give us a real test due to their experience of playing in the World Cup and I am looking forward, as well as millions of Tanzanians, to facing them on May 14.
Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane says he is aware of the invitation from Tanzania, but said Safa is still working out the finer details of the match.