A former Kaizer Chiefs star, Pintshou Kanga Nzenza reveals to KickOff how he assisted his country of birth in outnumbering South Africa in the Orlando Stadium stands.
Bafana Bafana clinched a 1-0 win over DR Congo in an international friendly at Orlando Stadium on Tuesday.
A talking point was the lack of home support for Bafana with the visiting support appearing to even outnumber the hosts.
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"I was part of the team, and my duties included making the players feel at home, most of the players that lost to Bafana it was their first caps, they had never played in Europe, they had never been in the national team," Nzenza tells KickOff.
"Organising the support for the Congolese national team was my role. I had to visit the people who are from Congo, I'm talking about those who are based in Johannesburg and tell them about the game.
"The players came to South Africa on Monday, and they trained until late, so when they played on Tuesday, they were fatigued.
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"I was there when the players got back to the hotel. It was almost nine o'clock. They had to bathe, they had to eat, and I was talking to the coach. I was back in my house at 2 a.m.
"The supporters that were there some of them flew from Congo, and some were from here in South Africa, and that was my role.
"I mobilised them from my church, and some from my WhatsApp group. I passed the message to all our churches.
"You cannot believe the crowd that filled the airport on Monday to welcome our national team.
"People came in numbers, then escorted the team until at the hotel in Sandton.
"Even the coach ended up telling me, no man you must tell these people to go back now players need to sleep, they have a game tomorrow.
"So, the number of supporters that we're at the Stadium was nothing. It was maybe a quarter of the people that were supposed to come to the Stadium.
"They couldn't come to the Stadium because they are staying in places like Yeoville, which is far.
"I organised buses, but they were not enough, we were supposed to fill the Stadium."
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