Dylan Bettencourt
I-FIFA izobuyekeza iphenalthi eyenze iBafana Bafana iphume emidlalweni yokuhlungela indebe yomhlaba yonyaka wezi-2022 ngemuva kokuthi i-Safa ifake isikhalo esisemthethweni.
“I-FIFA isitholile isikhalazo esivela ku-FA yaseNingizimu Afrika mayelana nalolu daba futhi bazolibuyekeza. Sicela uqonde ukuthi ngeke sikwazi ukuphawula kakhulu okwamanje,” kusho inhlangano eyengamele ibhola emhlabeni i-FIFA itshela i-The Athletic.
Umqeqeshi uHugo Broos nezakhe bebedinga nje kuphela ukudlala ngokulingana ukuze badlulele emzuliswaneni olandelayo wokuhlungela indebe yomhlaba, kodwa kwathi uRushine De Reuck edlalisa kabi uDaniel Amartey endaweni yamaphenalthi, iqembu le-Ghana lanikezwa ithuba lokushaya iphenalthi yakhala phakathi.
Nokho ukuphindwa kwesigameko kukhombise ukuthi akukho ukuxhumana phakathi kwalaba badlali kanti i-Safa yafaka isikhalazo ku-FIFA.
I-FIFA ikuqinisekisile ukuthi bakutholile ukubuyekezwa futhi bazosibheka lesi sigameko ezinsukwini ezizayo.
Isikhulu esiphezulu se-Safa, uTebogo Motlanthe, sibize lesi sigameko ngokuthi “ukugetshengwa emini” wengeza ngokuthi inhlangano eyengamele ibhola eNingizimu Afrika izothatha ezinye izinyathelo.
“Inhlangano inqume ukufaka isikhalo esisemthethweni ukuze ukuziphatha kwabaphathi bomdlalo kuphenywe kabanzi yi-FIFA ne-CAF,” kusho uTebogo.
U-Andile Ncobo ongunompempe waseNingizimu Afrika obebuyekeza umdlalo phakathi kwe-Ghana neNingizimu Afrika, uthe kumthathe amahora angaphezu kwamahlanu ukuthi abuyekeze isiwombe sokuqala.
Uthe kulandela ukubuyekeza kwakhe umdlalo, amaphesenti angama-89.3 wezinqumo ezingalungile ezithathwe ngunompempe wase-Senegal ngobusuku bomdlalo we-Ghana neNingizimu Afrika.
Isicelo sokuthi lo mqhudelwano uphindwe sethulwe ngoMsombuluko eNingizimu Afrika futhi sesisayiniwe abantu abayi-60,000 kuze kube manje.
Bekungeke kube okokuqala ukuthi umdlalo uphindwe phakathi kwamaqembu amabili ase-Afrika. IBafana iphinde yawudlala umdlalo wayo ne-Senegal ngonyaka wezi-2017 ngemuva kokuthi iNingizimu Afrika ithole iphenalthi ngendlela engafanele emdlalweni wokuqala.
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