{"id":46302,"date":"2025-12-30T23:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=46302"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:03:30","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignbafana-bafana-coach-not-happy-with-his-players-despite-reaching-afcon-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignbafana-bafana-coach-not-happy-with-his-players-despite-reaching-afcon-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Bafana coach not happy with his players despite reaching AFCON Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-139375\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"494\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bafana-Bafana-coach-not-happy-with-his-players-despite-reaching.webp.jpeg?resize=494%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"object-contain h-46 w-full rounded-lg  md:rounded-none md:rounded-lg wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=1024%2C547&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=768%2C410&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=1536%2C821&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=2048%2C1094&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?resize=494%2C264&amp;ssl=1 494w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hugo-Broos--scaled.webp?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content custom-text-styles\">\n<div class=\"soccer24-advanced-banner soccer24-banner-type-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bafana-Bafana-coach-not-happy-with-his-players-despite-reaching.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Banner2image\" class=\"soccer24-banner-image\"\/><\/div>\n<p>South Africa national team coach Hugo Broos has claimed that some players in his squad have not delivered satisfactory performances during their Africa Cup of Nations campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana secured qualification to the Round of 16 after collecting six points, following victories over Angola in their opening match and Zimbabwe in a 3\u20132 win on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite progressing to the knockout stages, Broos admitted he is not pleased with the performances of some of his players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to agree that I\u2019m not happy with the performances of some players and how they\u2019re acting on the pitch,\u201d the Belgian gaffer told reporters after the game against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something we have to work on. This has been happening since the beginning of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe progression we made in the last tournament does not guarantee us to win on the pitch now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was easy for us in the last tournament. Now it\u2019s difficult because everyone is now aware of how good we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- \n\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in Local<\/span><span class=\"tags-links\">Tagged 2016 Zimbabwe, 2025 afcon, Bafana Bafana, Hugo Broos<\/span>\t<\/footer>\n\n -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Bafana #Bafana #coach #happy #players #reaching #AFCON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; South Africa national team coach Hugo Broos has claimed that some players in his squad have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[942,1432,573,962,233,9471],"class_list":["post-46302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-afcon","tag-bafana","tag-coach","tag-happy","tag-players","tag-reaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46304,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46302\/revisions\/46304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}