Former Mamelodi Sundowns and Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has expressed clear interest in the South Africa national soccer team job, with Hugo Broos set to step down in five months’ time.
‘Jingles’ has been without a club for more than a year after leaving Esteghlal FC in January 2025.
He has since been linked with a potential return to Sundowns, who were reportedly considering parting ways with coach Miguel Cardoso last month.
Mosimane, who also said he is open to coming back to Masandawana, added that he would sign the Bafana contract today should the South African Football Association present him with the job offer.
He explained that his interest in Bafana is driven by his ambition to win the Africa Cup of Nations, having already secured three CAF Champions League titles at club level — one with Mamelodi Sundowns and two with Al Ahly.
“Myself, I am interested because I’ll tell you why, maybe it is ego, but it is the medal [AFCON] that I want to close everything,” said Mosimane during the interview with SMWX Podcast.
“It’s just the medal I don’t have on the continent. So, I would love to do that with Bafana and win the AFCON, that’s the one I want, it is possible.
“But I am not campaigning, cause the football association will put whoever they think is right, but if you ask me today, would you sign the contract? I would sign it today because it means a lot to me, and I think we are at the right time with the right generation.
“Football goes in waves. Brazil have not won it [Fifa World Cup] in so many years. France won the [2018] World Cup, they hadn’t won it for some time. Spain, you know, it’s a generational thing, Germany were winning it before.
“Argentina last won it with Diego Maradona era [prior to winning it in 2022]. I think this time, for AFCON, in South Africa we have the product to win it.
“We came third in the edition before the last one because we were knocked out in the last eight [Last 16]. But I think Sundowns, Pirates, and Chiefs are coming up, they have the capacity to give us the players to fight because I like it when Chiefs are playing in the Confederation Cup, Pirates and Sundowns in the Champions League.
“That is where you test yourself, and we a have an opportunity now, we’re good. We have the capacity, and we should not make excuses, we can do it.”