South Africa national team coach Hugo Broos has slammed the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ahead of their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Round of 16 match against Cameroon on Sunday.
Broos expressed anger at tournament organisers for forcing his side to train at the Moroccan national team’s facility, a 45-minute drive away from their hotel in Rabat.
Cameroon were also forced to travel to train at the same training venue.
Either Bafana Bafana or Cameroon will face Morocco in the quarter-finals should the hosts see off Tanzania in their last-16 tie.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Broos blasted the tournament’s logistics.
“I’m not so happy with the current situation,” Broos said. “We are 45 minutes away from our training pitch, so that means that, like on Friday, we were more than three hours away for training; 45 minutes to drive, one hour 15 training, then 45 minutes to drive back.
“Such things don’t make me happy. In a tournament like the AFCON, training pitches can be closer to the hotel than 45 minutes away. We lost an hour and a half travelling on the bus.”
Suggesting a competitive advantage for the tournament hosts, Broos argued that CAF should have not tolerated this training arrangement.
“Such things don’t make me happy, and certainly not that Cameroon and ourselves have to train in the base camp of Morocco, our next opponent,” he added. “I don’t understand how CAF allows that.
“I have to say this, because it makes me unhappy, and I have to tell you that I’m not happy about it.”
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