SAFA SPEAK TO MOSIMANE
The South African Football Association (SAFA) have confirmed they will open negotiations with current assistant coach Pitso Mosimane about the vacant head coach role in the coming days.
The long-term assistant to Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira will be invited to discussions in the next weeks.
He is the only candidate to take over as the World Cup hosts look ahead to the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying campaign and bid to reach the next World Cup finals in Brazil, SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani told a news conference in Johannesburg.
The 45-year-old Mosimane, a former international striker, served as the team’s assistant coach since 2006, but before being appointed to the top post he would have to present a vision to the association’s technical committee and then finalise the terms of his contract.
Nematanadani said the announcement of the process was designed to temper increasing media speculation over who would replace Parreira.
Mosimane has had a previous spell as the caretaker coach of the South African side, winning three, drawing three and losing just one of the seven matches he was in charge. He has long been earmarked as a future coach of Bafana Bafana, after a successful spell at SuperSport United.