Former AmaGlug Glug Player Wants SAFA Boss Danny Jordaan Fired After U23 Flop

• Amid the contained euphoria of Bafana Bafana qualifying for the 2023 Africa Cup of nations, there was an all-too-familiar disappointment
• The men's national under-23 team failed to qualify for the U23 Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted by Morocco
• Former AmaGlug-Glug player Sipho Ndzuzo has placed the blame at the feet of South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan

South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan must take the blame for the U23 men's national team failing to qualify for the U23 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.

That is the brutal assessment of former AmaGlug-Glug player Sipho Ndzuzo, who also believes Jordaan should be sacked for this embarrassment.

Ndzuzo, renowned for his days at Manning Rangers and Mamelodi Sundowns, wrote to The Citizen:

"Heads must roll. Danny Jordaan and his NEC (national executive council) must step down. We need to declare a state of disaster in South African Football. Dissolve the whole structure of football. The vision 2030 of Safa has already failed because its (key) deliverables were [for the U23] to qualify for AFCON and (the) Olympics.

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"Start afresh, put up a temporal structure to take us to a new NEC structure that will have representation of all football stakeholders. We are still in 2023 but we have already failed for Vision 2030. Danny Jordaan needs to go and retire from football. He is tired and old.”

Wenger to assist SAFA renewal

Ndzuzo's excoriation of Jordaan came just a few weeks after Sports Brief reported on the failing Vision 2030.

To breathe new life into it, SAFA decided to rope in the great former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger to help realign the plan to fix the country's national football.

Jordaan said that in his role as Chief of Global Football Development at FIFA, Wenger was brought on board with the hope that he could help national teams compete globally.

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SAFA fast-tracks VAR implementation

Approaching Wenger is among other targets SAFA has.

Another one involves introducing the video assistant referee in local football as quickly as possible.

Sports Brief revealed that the organisation has brought on board the great refereeing legend Pierluigi Collina to help with this implementation.