Panama game leaves SA with many questions

Coach is still shopping around and World Cup places are still up for grabs

- Kgomotso Mokoena

Bafana Bafana's two-match series against Panama may have started radiantly under the bright, radiant skies of KwaZulu-Natal with an impressive performance, but it ended with more questions than answers in the Mother City, with the Central American country badly exposing Hugo Broos' charges ahead of the looming 2026 Fifa World Cup.

There's only one Fifa calendar opening left before the World Cup gets underway, and the sad, biting truth is that Bafana are really not looking the part.

Broos has done a magnificent job in reviving the fortunes of the team and has been outstanding in his resolve. More often than not, he swam against the tide of popular opinion and did not give his detractors an ear. In fact, he gave them the middle finger and continued with his business unabated, turning a bunch of losers and no-hopers into a formidable team.

After an impressive 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign, Broos led Bafana to a bronze medal at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.