Pitso Mosimane doesn’t lus for the vacant Bafana Bafana job.
Having led the national team from 2010 to 2012, Bra Jingles went on to win the Caf Champions League twice – his second coming just months ago with current club Al Ahly.
And according to a source close to Mosimane, the 56-year-old is not keen to work in South Africa any time soon.
TimesLive quotes an unnamed source as saying: “He would never do it [take the job]... I asked him‚ and he said‚ ‘Nope‚ I won’t’. “It would be the same thing as asking Percy Tau to come and play for Kaizer Chiefs.
“Once you go... wherever‚ then you will come back to hang your boots here [in SA].”
The South African Football Association (Safa), though, say they have 200 applicants to succeed fired Molefi Ntseki.
According to Safa Technical Committee chairman Jack Maluleke, he and his colleagues will meet this week to shortlist candidates and hope to have their man in place by month-end.
He told SAFM: “We have about 150-200 CV’s for the vacant Bafana coaching job.”
Current AmaZulu coach and die Kaap se eie Benni McCarthy, ex-Bafana bosses Carlos Quieroz and Philippe Troussier and Afcon veterans Hugo Broos and Herve Renard are all linked.
But in an interview with the Sowetan, Maluleke adds: “We must have a coach before the end of this month; we’re committed to meet that deadline.
“People want this job so badly. We will also entertain the idea of head hunting.