{"id":46681,"date":"2026-01-04T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=46681"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:19:09","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsouth-africa-coach-hugo-broos-blasts-caf-suggests-favouritism-towards-afcon-hosts-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignsouth-africa-coach-hugo-broos-blasts-caf-suggests-favouritism-towards-afcon-hosts-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa coach Hugo Broos blasts CAF, suggests favouritism towards AFCON hosts Morocco"},"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>\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\/2026\/01\/South-Africa-coach-Hugo-Broos-blasts-CAF-suggests-favouritism-towards.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Banner2image\" class=\"soccer24-banner-image\"\/><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Broos expressed anger at tournament organisers for forcing his side to train at the Moroccan national team\u2019s facility, a 45-minute drive away from their hotel in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon were also forced to travel to train at the same training venue.<\/p>\n<p>Either Bafana Bafana or Cameroon will face Morocco in the quarter-finals should the hosts see off Tanzania in their last-16 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Broos blasted the tournament\u2019s logistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not so happy with the current situation,\u201d Broos said. \u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch things don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting a competitive advantage for the tournament hosts, Broos argued that CAF should have not tolerated this training arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch things don\u2019t make me happy, and certainly not that Cameroon and ourselves have to train in the base camp of Morocco, our next opponent,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t understand how CAF allows that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say this, because it makes me unhappy, and I have to tell you that I\u2019m not happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/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#South #Africa #coach #Hugo #Broos #blasts #CAF #suggests #favouritism #AFCON #hosts #Morocco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa national team coach Hugo Broos has slammed the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ahead of their 2025 Africa&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":[942,151,4523,1431,922,573,3481,4479,1430,1578,150,2071],"class_list":["post-46681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-blasts","tag-broos","tag-caf","tag-coach","tag-favouritism","tag-hosts","tag-hugo","tag-morocco","tag-south","tag-suggests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46681","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=46681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46682,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46681\/revisions\/46682"}],"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=46681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}