SAFA begin Bafana coach interview process
Interviews for the new South Africa
national team coach will all be conducted on Thursday, SAFA said on Wednesday.
This is with the exception of Bafana
Bafana caretaker coach, Steve Komphela, who is with the squad preparing for the
international friendly against Gabon at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on
Friday. Komphela will be interviewed next Tuesday.
SAFA technical committee chairperson
Fanyana Sibanyoni said the committee arrived at the decision after concluding
that conducting interviews on separate days would give an advantage to those
who would come later.
“It was a procedural decision that we
took as the technical committee. We decided that all prospective coaches will
each have a two-hour presentation followed by interviews, with the exception of
Steve who is on national duty,” said Sibanyoni.
“We expect to start the interviews early
in the morning and everyone should have gone through the process by 4pm.”
The Technical Committee Chairperson
added that once the process of interviewing the five is completed on Tuesday,
the committee will recommend the best candidate to SAFA's national executive
committee.
The five candidates on the shortlist for
the vacant Bafana Bafana job is Komphela, Gavin Hunt, Gordon Igesund, Neil
Tovey and Ephraim Mashaba.
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