Former Mamelodi Sundowns captain and Bafana Bafana midfielder Hlompho Kekana believes Hugo Broos’ Bafana team could win next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
Kekana told iDiski Times editor Rob Delport in the latest edition of the e-paper that he was proud of how this team has performed this year and feels they can even do better than the bronze medal they won in Cote d’Ivoire.
Bafana topped their group comfortably and finished unbeaten in their six games, earning a record 14 points overall.
“Let me just congratulate Bafana Bafana for the job well done,” Kekana said.
“Coach Hugo Broos and his technical team, together with the backroom staff and, of course, the players, they did the job to see ourselves in the next episode, another episode of the African Cup of Nations.
“They’ve done that,” the former Mamelodi Sundowns captain enthused.
“You know, they deserve that. And I always say we are that country that deserves to be in these competitions. I believe that we have players, we have coaches, we have facilities, we have everything.
“We just have to always perform at that level to make sure that we put ourselves in the position of competing with the rest of the world.
“But yeah, we deserve that, and I believe that we will do more than we did in the last episode of AFCON. Yeah, we did so, so, so well, you know, bringing bronze home and this generation will, of course, do much.
“And I’m happy that they’re almost doing the best, like the 96 team, I think they’re on the right path. They just need to make sure that from the semi-finals, they reach the final next, and, of course, win it, because, I mean, they’ve got that team that they can do it.”
