Lamontville Golden Arrows head coach Manqoba Mngqithi has waxed lyrical about Velemseni Ndwandwe, saying he wants to ask Hugo Broos to look at him for Bafana Bafana.
Ndwandwe, 29, has been at Arrows all his life, making over 150 appearances for Abafana Bes’thende.
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Mngqithi now revealed he even tried to lure him to Mamelodi Sundowns, as he feels the midfielder is strong enough to play for Bafana Bafana.
“I rate him really high,” he said after his side’s 2-1 win over Kaizer Chiefs.
“The way I rate him is that he could easily play for any team in this country. It’s not something that I’ve only seen now that I’m at Golden Arrows.
“I think, if you can speak to him, he knows how much I’ve always wanted to have him around [at Sundowns].
“But unfortunately, there is times where things don’t happen the way you want. I believe he is national team material, and I will try the best I can to also speak to Hugo [Broos] just to look at him.
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“Because I honestly think he is in a class of his own, strong defensively, very powerful offensively, very intelligent. If you saw the first chance where he played the ball to Sibiya, that was a very difficult pass. That could’ve easily created a goal in the early stages of the game.
“For me, he’s an exceptionally gifted player and I’ve used him in different roles – against Sundowns, I’ve used him to take care of Ribeiro from the half-space and he dealt with him very well.
“In the game against Polokwane City I used him on the side of Appollis and he dealt with him very well. In fact, even against Magesi it was a big loss not to have him.
“He’s a very good football player, I rate him very high.”
