Former Banyana Banyana captain Janine Van Wyk has revealed that her biggest worry about the WAFCON champions is the little time they’ve spent together.
Banyana are in Morocco ahead of the start of the defence of their African title they won in 2022 and are in Group C with Ghana, Tanzania and Mali. Desiree Ellis’ squad has a good balance of experience and new blood with the core of the group having played at the last edition.
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The highest capped African player spoke to iDiski Times writer Lethabo Kganyago in edition 211 of the newspaper where she spoke about the strength of the squad while also sharing her concerns about the potential lack of chemistry because of the little time the players have had together leading up to the tournament.
“I think it is a strong squad,” Van Wyk told iDiski Times.
“You know, people always say, if you don’t have your Thembi Kgatlanas, how are you going to score goals? But I think in recent matches against Botswana and Zambia, you saw that there had been multiple goal scorers, which is also a good plus for the national team.
“The only concern that I have is they haven’t really had much time to prepare. They’ve just come into camp and played two weeks or trained a week and played two matches, but they haven’t really been together for a long period of time to build the chemistry amongst each other.
“So that would probably be my only concern, but they had time after this, the league stopped, leading up to the tournament, which should have given them around two weeks to be together.
“But that would be, really, my only concern that I would have with a team, because you know that the other national teams, like Morocco, have been in camp for a very long time.”
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