After guiding Bafana Bafana to Afcon 2023, head coach Hugo Broos has put his head on the block by targeting the last-16 in Ivory Coast next year.
Following Tuesday night’s 2-1 win over Liberia in Monrovia to join group winners Morocco in qualifying from Group K, the Belgian tells Cafonline: “I said that people should kill me if we do not go to the Afcon.
“And now that we have made it, they should kill me if we do not go through the group phases of the tournament.”
A tale of contrasting emotions 😶
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After two years in charge, Broos has helped South Africa reached their first major tournament after missing out on the World Cup in Qatar.
And he adds on SuperSport: “This is a country that should be normally at Afcon and I didn’t understand why they didn’t go in the last years.
According to Hugo Broos, now that Bafana Bafana have qualified for AFCON, the next mission is to ensure that they make it past the group stage 👀
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“This was very important, we have a new team and a young team and the international games are very important to enhance the international experience and also going to the biggest tournament in Africa.
“We did it now and we can only progress in the next 10 months with opponents that we can learn from and be ready for Afcon.”