Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos has compared his stint with Cameroon saying he’s happier with the work he is doing with South Africa.
Broos won the Africa Cup of Nations with the Indomitable Lions in 2017 while he found South Africa in one of its worst states and qualified them for back-to-back AFCONS including the upcoming event in Morocco as well as the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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The Belgian was on the podium with Bafana as bronze medallists in Ivory Coast and he is now in his last months as head coach having announced that he will leave the team and retire as coach after next year’s World Cup.
The coach explained that he found a readymade team in Cameroon that was a powerhouse expected to actually win the AFCON and in South Africa he had to build and he is proud that the team surpassed expectations and continues to grow.
“You know, when I’m honest, I think what we did with South Africa was better than what I did with Cameroon,” said Broos.
“We built a team here and that team progressed day by day. And then you go to AFCON, and you have ambitions, but you never think that one moment you should have the opportunity to play the final. The first time I think 95% of the group for them was the first AFCON they played. So, you don’t expect that but the progression we made was enormous. Cameroon was a team they were used to be in an AFCON.
“They were seen as one of the favourites to win AFCON. So, it was a little bit different, and the pressure was also much higher in Cameroon. So, I think what we did with South Africa here be third in the previous [AFCON], again now two times in a row, qualified for AFCON and qualified for World Cup. I wasn’t with Cameroon.
“We won AFCON and four months later, we were out of qualification, Nigeria went to AFCON. So what we did here for me, I am more happy with the work I did here than with the work I did with Cameroon, because you can expect that from Cameroon when you go to AFCON, but I don’t think that everyone here in the room, and even I expected two years ago that we should play the semi-finals.
“So yeah, it was a great campaign, and it’s still not finished, not at all. So, we will see now in two weeks, and then again, I will try to end my career with a fantastic performance in America, Oh, no, in Mexico now it’s not America anymore. Yeah, it’s very nice for me, really.”
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