Former Al Ahly assistant coach Cavin Johnson has claimed that there is no better South African player than Doctor Khumalo and no better captain since Neil Tovey.
Khumalo had been levelled as Mzansi’s best player of all time and now the former Platinum Stars and SuperSport United head coach has backed the claim – Tovey is also one known as one of the greatest former captains of Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana.
Both Bafana Bafana legends were in the squad that won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996, and are still praised for what they did back then.
Johnson thinks the culture of the big teams in the country is slowly dying and players are no longer playing for the badge, or trying to emulate former club stars.
“There is nobody better than Doctor Khumalo now,” Johnson told ShootOnline in an exclusive interview.
“That’s the shame that I put on myself as a South African because we cannot, presently like we speak now, there’s nobody better than Neil Tovey as a captain of the national team,”
“It’s like what South African player is going to replicate Benni McCarthy, our current crop of plays that I are in Europe now, there is no one better than Lucas Radebe.
“The players in Egypt at Al Ahly they knew what exactly Mahmoud “Bibo” ElKhatib did, they knew what game he scored and what game he scored to win the final.
“Those players knew what Mohamed AbouTrika was, and they actually worship the previous players.
“They play all the time to improve on what the previous players did. So, here it’s like there is this thing in our players of as long as I have GTI, I’m fine.”
Johnson has been unattached since leaving Al Ahly before the start of the 2021/2022 season.
