In Zulu, the acronym Safa (South African Football Association) means “we are dying”.
How apt. Each day that Danny Jordaan, newly elected to a third term as president, spends in office, football dies a slow death.
On Friday a Safa media conference descended into chaos after a journalist asked Jordaan an important question: having been president of the organisation since 2013, what did he think he still needed to do in the post and why did he need three terms to carry out his mandate?
Instead of answering himself, Jordaan unleashed his rottweiler, Western Cape region vice-chair Tankiso Modipa, to speak on his behalf. Journalists were “not part of football”, Modipa responded somewhat preposterously. They should not ask the Safa president “direct and personal questions” and should focus on “journalist things”.
With these clowns in charge once again, Bafana Bafana have no chance of a revival.
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