We never forced anybody to play in this tournament, and it’ll be pretty disgusting if money was the only motivator.

But this does not mean Safa will no longer exist because the mother body is there for the development of the game from the grassroots level.

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

The coach does not have to be local or international. As long as he’s the best available. At this moment, no one has been identified and the technical committee should start doing that now.

And they haven’t been from Mickey Mouse people… Lothar Matthaeus and Brian Kerr (ex-Ireland manager) have been among the overseas applications.

At the end of February hopefully we’ll be in a position to announce who the new manager will be.

We will issue out a statement tomorrow (Wednesday) when we have concluded meetings with the technical committee.

Some of the players wanted changes to aspects of that contract, but that is something we’ll have to deal with when we get back to South Africa.

Mr. Dumitru was selected on an interim basis and as of today he is no longer the team’s head coach.

Mr Dumitru was selected on an interim basis and as of today he is no longer the team’s head coach. Safa will conduct an intensive search whether it be by interviews or head hunting for...

President Mbeki and the nation want a winning team and a winning nation, and that’s what we are working toward. We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to meet the expectations of FIFA,...