Hugo Broos believes that the technical workshop will reshape South African football
21st February 2026
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Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has commended the SAFA technical department for organizing a successful three-day national teams’ identity workshop that helped them to lay out the plan for the year ahead.
The workshop was attended by all members of the national teams’ technical staff, who thoroughly discussed all issues concerning their teams.
Broos, who is now about to finish his fourth year as the Bafana head coach, says he feels, for the first time, that all the miscommunication in the past in the national team has been dealt with.
"I have to say I'm very happy that our TD took the initiative to organise those three days. I think it's the first time in the five years I've been coaching that I met every member of the staff of every national team,” Broos said.
“We had the opportunity to speak about our problems, to speak about football to seek how we can solve the problems in the future and I think that is the best thing to do.
“There was a lack of communication in the past between the different parties, different teams. I think we started now with it and I hope it can happen again in the future.
“It's the only way to progress, it's the only way to become a better team, to know the problems of the other teams. To share ideas between each other and to use the words of the CEO, I think it's the best thing to make South Africa great again."
Ntseki, also a former Bafana Bafana head coach who was appointed as SAFA Technical Director on a fulltime basis towards the end of last year, says they come out of this workshop with a strong declaration that the national teams are going beyond the stage of just qualifying for continental and international competitions.
He says now the mandate is to compete successfully.
"SAFA is us, there is no SAFA without us. If ever we are complaining about SAFA it means we are complaining about ourselves. If the outside world is complaining about SAFA, it's complaining about us, ourselves, South Africans,” Ntseki said.
“So, let us all make it happen that as South Africans we are going to be seen to be a country that is football driven. A country of success, as we were discussing in the past three days, we are happy and we are done with the qualifications.
“We want to take our qualifications to the next level and we can't be taking our qualifications to the next level if we don't have these technical conversations. The technical conversations have started, we have made the declaration that every month we are going to have these types of conversations virtually because we all know that it's not gonna be easy all the time for clubs to release their employees to come to SAFA to have these technical conversations.
“So, wherever our members of our technical team will be, we will be having those technical conversations."
