{"id":15254,"date":"2025-11-14T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mokwena-urges-support-for-bafana-bafana-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:32","slug":"mokwena-urges-support-for-bafana-bafana-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mokwena-urges-support-for-bafana-bafana-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Mokwena urges support for Bafana Bafana coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MC Alger coach Rulani Mokwena has called on South Africans (SA) to back Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos and respect his decisions regarding squad selections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During a Q&amp;A session with the SA Football Journalists\u2019 Association, Mokwena was asked about Broos\u2019 choice to leave attacker Thembinkosi Lorch out of recent national team squads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mokwena stressed that Broos has earned the authority to make such calls, pointing to his leadership in guiding SA to both Africa Cup of Nations qualification and a spot in next year\u2019s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Broos has done exceptionally well for the country,\u201d Mokwena said. \u201cGiven the success he\u2019s achieved, he deserves our support, and the players do too. He certainly deserves a fair share of the credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15255,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15254","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"MC Alger coach Rulani Mokwena has called on South Africans (SA) to back Bafana Bafana coach","published_date":"2025-11-14 10:13:05","news_description":"MC Alger coach Rulani Mokwena has called on South Africans (SA) to back Bafana Bafana coach","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19571,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15254\/revisions\/19571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}