{"id":54984,"date":"2026-04-04T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=54984"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:34:19","slug":"if-you-have-a-striker-scoring-goals-play-him-ex-sundowns-star-on-rayners-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/04\/if-you-have-a-striker-scoring-goals-play-him-ex-sundowns-star-on-rayners-omission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sundowns star on Rayners omission"},"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<p>Former Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Brent Carelse has shared his thoughts on Hugo Broos leaving out Iqraam Rayners in the last Bafana Bafana matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old forward was one of the notable omissions from the Bafana squad that played Panama in two friendly matches last month.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chippa United man felt Lyle Foster was off form and perhaps the coaches should have selected a striker banging in goals in the PSL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that people only talk about now because obviously we lacked a bit (upfront), I think Lyle was a bit off form, he didn\u2019t give us what we wanted but I think those decisions it\u2019s up to the coach and obviously the coach made the decision,\u201d Carelse told <em>Soccer Laduma<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut a lot of people would maybe agree with me to say if you\u2019ve got a guy that\u2019s scoring and is a top goal-scorer in our league, surely he needs to be there or needs to be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rayners-scoring-goals-left-right-and-centre-for-downs\">Rayners scoring goals left, right and centre for Downs<\/h2>\n<p>Carelse said he had no problem with Broos picking players from one club if it benefits Bafana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHugo Broos is obviously the national team coach and he needs to concentrate on the national team, he can\u2019t worry about club football and who is playing for who,\u201d Carelse added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to put out his stronger team and if it means all 11 of his players are coming from one team then that\u2019s the case and he\u2019s not going to be worried about what people say and whatever they say, because at the end of the day he must put the strongest team out. If it\u2019s all Sundowns players, he uses all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a former player I also understand, because remember the players also want to play, so they won\u2019t be saying \u2018No, I want to rest\u2019, if the coach selects me I\u2019m going to play!,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rayners scored in Sundowns 4-1 win against Chippa United on Friday which has raised more questions on why he was not in the Bafana squad.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-should-rayners-go-to-the-world-cup\">Should Rayners go to the World Cup?<\/h2>\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#ExSundowns #star #Rayners #omission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Brent Carelse has shared his thoughts on Hugo Broos leaving out Iqraam Rayners in the last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54984","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=54984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54986,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54984\/revisions\/54986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}