The Under-21 championship in Mafikeng, the Orlando Pirates-Kaizer
Chiefs Carling Black Label match, the ABC Motsepe play-offs, in Durban, some of the MTN
quarter-finals and many others including the Under 17 and 20 trips to North and
West Africa proved the lads fired blanks.
Putting it into perspective, he mentioned Xavi’s pass
rate of 98 % compared to South Africa’s best at 40 %, mentioning that opponents
needed not to fight for the ball as it always came back to them without a fight.
Likewise, he pointed out that Wayne Rooney scored 4 goals with every 6 attempts
while local coaches informed him their best strikers only scored on their 18th
attempt in South Africa.
The frank talking boss pointed out that Germany
concluded their 2004 European championship in the first round and then lifted
the Fifa World Cup in 2014. That planning proved that the development element of
coaches and players to bounce back from disaster had no substitute.
This point was made in reference to the mandate of
the new Bafana Bafana coach, Ephraim Shakes Mashaba, whose job priority is qualification to the 2018
Russia Fifa World Cup and the qualification to compete to win the 2022 Qatar
Fifa World Cup.
The country aimed at a regular top 3 position in
Africa and top 10 (to 20) in the world Fifa ranking. Coaches were discouraged
from shortcuts but encouraged to work for the good of the game of South Africa.
Given the 51 million South Africans, 3 million
registered football players fell short of the expected 10 % of the population.
Coaches needed to put more effort to produce more players of very high quality.
He bemoaned apartheid traits in schools that still saw football as a black man
sport while promoting rugby and cricket, pointing out that Herschele Gibbs went
into high school as a national Under 17 footballer and came out a cricketer, as
did Molefe Oliphant’s son who became a rugby player.
Jordaan outlined the many achievement concluded in
the short term so far and his plans in the long term, including building nine
provincial academies and artificial turfs, starting in KwaZulu Natal within
weeks. A national women league will commence in the coming seasons, among the
prominent plans. His National Executive Committee will be reduced from 36 to 18
soon.
He mention the deals with Siyaya and SABC will net
Safa R200 million, almost in line with cricket (R250 million) and rugby (R350
million), up from R50 million. He reminded all that the game used to benefit
R100 000.00 only while R40 million was enjoyed by other sports with less
viewership.
He
mummed an idea that some countries funded private academies following a
national agenda and philosophy. ‘Don’t talk about us, talk to us’, he concluded.
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