Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has expressed his unhappiness with how far his side’s training pitch is from the team hotel.
South Africa take on the 2017 champions who last won the tournament under the Belgian mentor on Sunday, with the match kicking off at 21:00 SAST.
However, Broos expressed his unhappiness with the distance between their hotel and training pitch, which is also the base of the Moroccan team – their potential quarter-final opponents – in his match day -1 press conference on Saturday.
“I’m not so happy with the current situation, we are 25 minutes away from our training pitch,” he stated.
“That means that like yesterday we had over two hours to wait, 45 minutes to drive to training, 1 hour 15 minutes training and another 45 minutes drive.
“It doesn’t make me happy, such things. And certainly not, if my information is right, Cameroon and we have to train in the base camp of Morocco, our next opponent.
“I don’t understand how CAF allows that – but ok, I have to say it because it makes me unhappy.”
Broos then switched his focus to the game and admitted he was impressed with the quality and energy in the young Cameroon side.
“The game of tomorrow is surely a special game for me. As you know I won AFCON with our opponent of tomorrow, even though there are not so many players anymore – only Bassogog and N’Koudou, the rest I don’t really know.
“But if you win an AFCON with a country, there is always a little place in your heart that stays and that’s the case also with Cameroon and me, it will always be there.
“Tomorrow I can’t have mercy with them, I’m coach of South Africa now. But it’s a special game, I have to say that.
“It doesn’t mean that we are not going to fight for tomorrow.
“I was surprised a little bit of the Cameroon team – it changed a lot when you compare it with qualifiers for the World Cup. I was a little bit surprised to see them playing.
“It’s a very good team, it’s a young team, some talented players. There is a good fighting spirit, a good mentality.
“That means that tomorrow we have achieve our best level if we want to beat them.”
