If there’s anybody who doesn’t beat across the bush and calls a spade a spade, it needs to be Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos, who has stated Percy Tau shouldn’t be an enormous star.
The Bafana mentor lately got here to the defence of Egypt-based ahead Percy Tau after his no-show on the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast this yr.
Nonetheless, Broos didn’t mince his phrases when explaining he didn’t choose the 30-year-old in March when Bafana performed friendlies towards Algeria and Andorra.
Tau has been restored to the nationwide crew as Bafana gear as much as tackle Nigeria within the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and Zimbabwe subsequent month.
“I spoke to him after the AFCON as a result of folks killed him on social media… they actually killed him. I didn’t take him with us in March. What if he performed a foul recreation, it might have been worse,” Broos stated on SABC Sport.
Tau makes the checklist of one of many extremely rated South African gamers as he simply bagged a 3rd CAF Champions League title with Al Ahly.
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Nonetheless, the 30-year-old is but to point out his big-match temperament in nationwide crew colors regardless of scoring 15 objectives for Bafana.
“However he’s again with us, Percy is a vital participant for us and I don’t agree with those that stated his AFCON was not good.
“He was not unbelievable, he was not the man who determined the video games. For me, he did what he needed to do with out being the good star.
“Perhaps folks [had high expectations] as a result of he at all times decides the outcome and he’s at all times the perfect of the crew. That’s not the type of participant Percy is. Percy shouldn’t be an enormous star. Percy is an excellent participant, and that’s the distinction.
“When you find yourself a star, you resolve the video games. Percy has a lot qualities, and that’s what I take into consideration him, not what folks take into consideration him,” Broos defined.
Broos will journey along with his 23-man squad to Nigeria on the seventh of June earlier than internet hosting neighboring nation Zimbabwe in Bloemfontein.
Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has named the 23-man squad to face Nigeria and Zimbabwe in two FIFA World Cup qualifiers in June.
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