Former Kaizer Chiefs midfield maestro Doctor Khumalo has sent consolation words for Orlando Pirates youngster Cemran Dansin for not making it in the final Bafana Bafana squad for the September 2027 AFCON qualifiers.
Dansin, 21, was named in Pitso Mosimane’s preliminary squad for the qualifiers against Guinea and Eritrea and also subsequent internationally friendly against Egypt.
The midfielder a product of the Pirates DDC side, is his second full season with the first team and last season he helped them to a treble which included the Betway Premiership title.
This season he has featured six times for Pirates in all competitions. He has since been rewarded with a call-up in the national U23 side that will play Algeria in two matches this month.
Khumalo said that Dansin should draw motivation from being in the preliminary squad of the senior team and that Mosimane has sent a message with the gesture.
“Preliminary, it’s a hope that ‘oh, I was selected’,” said Khumalo on The DNA Podcast.
“Hence, I’m saying it doesn’t mean that you’re not part of the 30, you’re out and out, outright.
“I mean, Dansin, the young boy from Orlando Pirates, Pitso is talking to us to say these are youngsters that we need to groom.
“Just to show that boys, you are part of my journey you are part of the preliminary squad.
“But because I’m going to my first war, let me take the experienced soldiers but I haven’t forgotten about you boy, you see.”