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Ban Zimbabwe from World Cup qualifiers: Bafana Bafana Coach Hugo Broos

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos says CAF should ban teams like Zimbabwe who can’t host games at home due to unavailability of suitable football venues in their countries.

The Warriors were among seventeen sides that were forced to play on neutral venues in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers.

The national team used Huye Stadium in Butare, Rwanda to host their home Ground C encounter against Nigeria on Sunday.

Another Group C team, Lesotho, will be playing their home game against Benin at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Tuesday (15:00 CAT) .

According to coach Hugo Broos, the best way to solve this stadium crisis is to block these countries with no suitable venues from playing in the qualifiers.

“This one thing I don’t understand in African football is that home games are not home games,” said Broos, as cited by IDiski Times.

“I think Zimbabwe will play their home games in South Africa, so we have a little advantage for that game.

“So, what I saw in the past, for example, Liberia played their home game in Morocco, I’m very sorry but this is not correct. I think CAF must do something about this.

“I know it is not easy for those countries to have appropriate stadiums because it is something about money, but you can easily say, ‘in five years, if you don’t have a stadium, then you don’t play CAF games anymore, you don’t play AFCON qualifiers and that of the World Cup’.

“But if you say nothing and those things happen, then the competition is not 100% correct anymore. It is not up to us, but it is the guys up there who have decided this and I hope one day they will decide by putting a period to say, ‘Okay, if you have not decided on the stadium that you need to have, I’m very sorry, you had those three or four or five years, finished, no qualifiers anymore – no for World Cup or AFCON’. Maybe then, they will do something.”

Such an Embarrassment:

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has taken a swipe at authorities for failing to ratify the ban of Zimbabwe from playing in our own stadiums as they have stalled development for some time.

Taking to X, the government critic said that Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Kirsty Coventry is failing to deal with such as a result of incompetence.

This is how low Kirsty Coventry and Mnangagwa’s regime have taken Zimbabweans to, making us a laughing stock!

The Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos said that Zimbabwe must be banned from World Cup Qualifiers because it doesn’t have a home ground for international matches after Zimbabwe played Nigeria in Rwanda for its home match.

Zimbabwean stadiums (stadia) were banned because they are no longer fit for purpose, for year the Zimbabwean regime has failed to fix the stadiums.
This is embarrassing!

 

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