Babalola Oluwatomiwa
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Head coach of South Africa's Bafana Bafana side, Shakes Mashaba has blamed their elimination out of the 2015 African Nations Cup tournament on the death of their late goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa.
Meyiwa was murdered last year, having started the Nations Cup qualifiers with the team but was unable to see it through.
As a result, South Africa didn't find an adequate replacement for Meyiwa, and ended up using three goalkeepers in Equatorial Guinea.
And Mashaba admitted that he is still searching for a number one goalkeeper between Darren Keet, Brilliant Khuzwayo and Jackson Mabokgwane.
“I did so in a bid to find the number one goalkeeper in the country, which we don’t have at the moment. If we don’t give other goalkeepers a chance when are we going to know what we have," he asks.
“We had three games and we needed to test the three goalkeepers that is why if you look in the middle of park, the centre of the spine, Furman and Jali were always there.
"We didn’t want to rattle that. We made some changes on the wings and the strike force, while the defence was more often than not forced changes if you think of Rivaldo and Thulani Hlatshwayo. All in all, what we were doing is about building a team,” he said.
Meyiwa was murdered last year, having started the Nations Cup qualifiers with the team but was unable to see it through.
As a result, South Africa didn't find an adequate replacement for Meyiwa, and ended up using three goalkeepers in Equatorial Guinea.
And Mashaba admitted that he is still searching for a number one goalkeeper between Darren Keet, Brilliant Khuzwayo and Jackson Mabokgwane.
“I did so in a bid to find the number one goalkeeper in the country, which we don’t have at the moment. If we don’t give other goalkeepers a chance when are we going to know what we have," he asks.
“We had three games and we needed to test the three goalkeepers that is why if you look in the middle of park, the centre of the spine, Furman and Jali were always there.
"We didn’t want to rattle that. We made some changes on the wings and the strike force, while the defence was more often than not forced changes if you think of Rivaldo and Thulani Hlatshwayo. All in all, what we were doing is about building a team,” he said.
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