South Africa Football Association (SAFA) has denied news circulating around that they have handed the Bafana Bafana job to national icon Benni McCarthy.
SAFA reiterated in an official release that they are yet to come out with the new senior national team coach and people should treat all the news around as false.
“We have noted that various publications over the last week have reported the appointment of new Bafana Bafana coach as having been concluded.
Firstly, it was Carlos Queiroz then Pitso Mosimane and most recently AmaZulu coach Benni McCarthy.
SAFA has always stated that the Technical Committee will submit their final recommendations to the SAFA NEC, the highest decision-making body, which will finally make the announcement once the process is concluded.
We note that the Benni McCarthy’s name comes at a time when AmaZulu are top of the log standings and it might appear that SAFA wants to derail the club’s good run.
We are happy with AmaZulu’s current good run but SAFA will announce the new incoming coach once the issue is dealt with by the NEC.” The release signed by Head of Communications Dominic Chimhavi stressed.
South Africa are expected to name a new coach in the coming days following the sacking of Molefi Ntseki a month ago.
Bafana Bafana are in the same group for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers with Ghana, Mozambique and Ethiopia.
