Raymond Mdaka frustrated by response to Amajita selection process

A few weeks ago, Mdaka and the South African Football Association technical department released a circular asking regions and provinces to prepare for their scouting process to start selection and monitoring for the new Amajita team. 

Speaking to SABC Sport during their monitoring session at the Gauteng Development League’s top eight tournament finals this weekend, Mdaka says things could have been better. 

"I don't want to talk about it that much because I was really disappointed big-time," said Mdaka.

"We sent the circulars to all the provinces somewhere around end of November last year to request them just to go around their LFAs and regions, and when they do their provincials we'll go and check, so that we can cover the whole country.

"As much as its not simple, because if we go according to standard levels, we'll always go to the GDL, DDC, and PSL, so something we wanted to do is to look at everybody.

"But our worry so far is a lot of provinces haven't responded on that, and that's the worrying factor – if you look at these scenarios, some will say, 'We don't have money and we don't have this,' but this is the way to go, let us be realistic and honest.

"For these kids to be playing, all we need, especially with development – as much as we can have talented players, it's very important for us to talk about them doing what? Playing! Competing at this level! That's the most important thing."

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