Hugo Broos shrugs off backlash after AFCON failure

Broos and his Bafana charges touched down in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning following their Round of 16 exit at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.

Some fans have voiced their hurt and disappointment at the team's four matches at the continental showpiece, while others have called for the coach's head over his decisions before and during the tournament, but he is unrelenting in his focus on the World Cup.

"When you win a lot, you always have people who are against you, and those people start talking when there's a defeat and it's happening now," Broos told SABC News at OR Tambo International Airport.

"I'm nearly 40 years experienced as a coach with those things, and I know that it happens, people are frustrated and they start talking about everything.

"But for me it's something I don't even listen or read – I'm not on social media. I know those things are happening now but in two weeks everything will be forgotten again and we start again."

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The Belgian tactician revealed what the next few weeks will look like for him as he looks to return home to recuperate and begin building momentum for the global spectacle coming up in June.

"I think we have to make a good analysis now of what happened in the last 4-5 five weeks and see what can we do better for the next months and certainly for the World Cup," he added.

"Now I'd like to go to my family, so on Saturday I go back to Belgium, but in February I will be back [in South Africa] and when I'm back home in Belgium I will start to analyse and see what we have to do for the next weeks, trying to be stronger for the World Cup."

Bafana Bafana will open the World Cup against co-hosts Mexico on June 11, before facing the winner from the UEFA play-off set to be contested in March, and finally completing their Group A schedule against South Korea on 24 June.