Former Bafana Bafana international Katlego Mashego is not happy with the way the South African Football Association has been treating the COSAFA tournament.
A new look Bafana Bafana left the majority of South Africans disappointed following their loss to neighbours Mozambique in the quarter-finals of the competition that is played by teams from the Southern region.
The national team lost 4-5 in a penalty shoot-out on Wednesday night.
Just like South Africa, Mozambique entered the tournament at the quarterfinals stage.
"That performance didn't give even a little bit of hope," Mashego tells snl24.com/kickoff.
"It was an ordinary game of football, I don't know if there was any positive to take out of that.
"You can select your COSAFA team from the best players in your local league, but now it's about first division players or players who are not regulars in their teams.
"I'm sure there are players who are young and play regularly in their clubs.
"Because however way you want to look at it this is still the national team. You can't have players that still need to be developed in the national team.
"On Wednesday, who are those players that were playing there? Some of them I have never seen or never heard of.
"There are players like Nkosingiphile Ngcobo, Njabulo Blom who are not even in the national team set-up, why don't they invite those players?
"It's probably SAFA not communicating well with the PSL to make those players available... I don't know.
"The national team is playing and the national team coach (Hugo Broos) is not there. What is that?
"Why is Helman Mkhalele leading the national team when we have a head coach?
"The COSAFA Cup is there to prepare the national team that is going to play in the AFCON and World Cup qualifiers but the coach is not there? So what are we doing to ourselves?
"COSAFA is not a joke, it's there to prepare teams from the south of Africa.
"You will never see such things happening in tournaments like CECAFA.
"I don't understand why don't you have your Kermit Erasmus, Itumeleng Khune, and Brandon Petersen playing in the COSAFA.
"All these players are locally based, So where do you plan to play them, against Senegal?
"Take your Evidence Makgopa to Cosafa, why are you taking someone like Radiopane who is still fresh from the MDC?
"Your Thabang Monares, why don't they invite them? Why can't Teboho Mokoena of Mamelodi Sundowns go play COSAFA?"
