SAFA hopes the Bafana Bafana match with Ghana will be replayed

SAFA is counting on FIFA reversing its 2022 FIFA World Cup loss to Ghana at the Cape Coast Stadium.

The South Africans after the game have made a series of wild allegations from distance to the Cape Coast Stadium to their team getting intimidated.

The wild allegations are been spearheaded by Danny Jordaan, supported by coach Hugo Broos, SAFA CEO Tebogo Motlanthe, and team captain Williams.

The national association is now hoping that FIFA will order a rematch, as they did four years ago in a match between Bafana Bafana and Senegal, when Ghana referee Joseph Lamptey was found guilty of match manipulation after making judgments on favor of Asian betting syndicates.

“The match officials decided the game which is not what is supposed to happen so, we, as the association have decided that we will be writing to both CAF and FIFA to investigate how the game was handled and secondly to challenge some of these decisions.

“We have ticked all our boxes and will submit a full complaint which is supported by all the evidence which was there to say either that game was manipulated or the referees had done something wrong before that game. We are very disheartened by their action, and we can’t leave it and let it destroy the players.

“We feel robbed because this is not an isolated incident of a penalty but there are a lot of decisions by the match officials and that is why we said we will get an expert so that we can get a strong case. We are looking at the precedence which FIFA set by ordering us to replay Senegal and we think if justice is to be served the same decision must be taken against Ghana,” says Tebogo Motlanthe, the SAFA CEO.