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Part 1. SHAME ON BAFANA BAFANA: A WORLD CUP DISGRACE IN LOS ANGELES South Africa 0–1 Canada | FIFA World Cup 2026, Round of 32 | Los Angeles Stadium, Inglewood | June 28, 2026 Let me be direct. This was not a football match. This was a public humiliation on the grandest stage the sport has to offer — the FIFA World Cup — and Bafana Bafana delivered it themselves, wrapped in a bow, and handed it to Canada on a Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. Canada. A hockey nation. A country where football is still fighting for cultural real estate against the NHL, the NBA, and the CFL. A country without Alphonso Davies — their best player — who didn’t even make the starting lineup today. And Bafana Bafana could not beat them. Not in 90 minutes. Not in stoppage time. They couldn’t beat them at all. The final score: South Africa 0–1 Canada. Stephen Eustáquio, an LAFC midfielder playing essentially a home game, settled a ball on the edge of the penalty area in the second minute of second-half stoppage time and smashed it into the bottom corner of Ronwen Williams’ net. That was it. That was the difference between a Round of 16 and an early flight home. One moment of quality — from the Canadian side, not ours. THE LINEUP AND THE SETUP South Africa head coach Pitso Mosimane, the 74-year-old who once guided Cameroon to AFCON glory, set his side up in a 4-2-3-1. In goal, Ronwen Williams. The back four of Khuliso Mudau, Mbekezeli Mbokazi, Ime Okon, and Aubrey Modiba. A midfield double pivot of Teboho Mokoena and Sphephelo Sithole. Behind striker Evidence Makgopa, the trio of Thapelo Maseko, Relebohile Mofokeng, and Oswin Appollis. On paper — genuinely dangerous. Makgopa has pace and power. Mofokeng is electric. Appollis can burn defenders. Maseko has quality in tight spaces. This attack, on its best day, should terrorize any defense. This was not their best day. This was not even a mediocre day. This was poverty football. Canada lined up in a 4-4-2. Maxime Crépeau in goal. Alistair Johnston and Richie Laryea at fullback, with Moïse Bombito and Derek Cornelius as the center-back pairing. A midfield of Tajon Buchanan, Nathan Saliba, Stephen Eustáquio, and Liam Millar. Up front, Jonathan David and Tani Oluwaseyi. No Alphonso Davies. And it didn’t matter. THE FIRST HALF: BAFANA BAFANA PLAY SCARED From the opening whistle, South Africa did something inexplicable for a team playing at the World Cup Round of 32 with real attacking talent: they played backwards. Not occasionally. Systemically. Ronwen Williams, Khuliso Mudau, Teboho Mokoena, Sphephelo Sithole — every time they received the ball under the slightest pressure, the instinct was identical. Back. Back. Back. Pass it to the goalkeeper. Reset. Repeat. It was as if the other half of the pitch was on fire and nobody told them the match only counts if you cross halfway. Canada meanwhile pressed intelligently under Jesse Marsch. By the midway point of the first half, they already had significantly more touches in the opposition box and more shot attempts. The attacking intent was one-sided — and it was coming from Canada. The closest moment of the half came when Moïse Bombito rose high to meet a cross and directed a header goalward, only for Aubrey Modiba to make a stunning clearance off the goal line. South Africa surviving — not through organization or tactical discipline, but through sheer fortune and the desperation of their own defender rescuing them. In the 44th minute, Stephen Eustáquio swung in a corner. Tani Oluwaseyi headed it but sent it sailing over the bar. Canada were the better side and everyone in the stadium knew it. When the half-time whistle blew, Jesse Marsch was visibly unhappy with the referee — but he was winning the match in every statistical category that matters.

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SHAME ON BAFANA BAFANA: A WORLD CUP DISGRACE IN LOS ANGELES

South Africa 0–1 Canada | FIFA World Cup 2026, Round of 32 | Los Angeles Stadium, Inglewood | June 28, 2026

Let me be direct. This was not a football match. This was a public humiliation on the grandest stage the sport has to offer — the FIFA World Cup — and Bafana Bafana delivered it themselves, wrapped in a bow, and handed it to Canada on a Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles.
Canada. A hockey nation. A country where football is still fighting for cultural real estate against the NHL, the NBA, and the CFL. A country without Alphonso Davies — their best player — who didn’t even make the starting lineup today. And Bafana Bafana could not beat them.
Not in 90 minutes. Not in stoppage time. They couldn’t beat them at all.
The final score: South Africa 0–1 Canada. Stephen Eustáquio, an LAFC midfielder playing essentially a home game, settled a ball on the edge of the penalty area in the second minute of second-half stoppage time and smashed it into the bottom corner of Ronwen Williams’ net. That was it. That was the difference between a Round of 16 and an early flight home. One moment of quality — from the Canadian side, not ours.
THE LINEUP AND THE SETUP
South Africa head coach Pitso Mosimane, the 74-year-old who once guided Cameroon to AFCON glory, set his side up in a 4-2-3-1. In goal, Ronwen Williams. The back four of Khuliso Mudau, Mbekezeli Mbokazi, Ime Okon, and Aubrey Modiba. A midfield double pivot of Teboho Mokoena and Sphephelo Sithole. Behind striker Evidence Makgopa, the trio of Thapelo Maseko, Relebohile Mofokeng, and Oswin Appollis.
On paper — genuinely dangerous. Makgopa has pace and power. Mofokeng is electric. Appollis can burn defenders. Maseko has quality in tight spaces. This attack, on its best day, should terrorize any defense.
This was not their best day. This was not even a mediocre day. This was poverty football.
Canada lined up in a 4-4-2. Maxime Crépeau in goal. Alistair Johnston and Richie Laryea at fullback, with Moïse Bombito and Derek Cornelius as the center-back pairing. A midfield of Tajon Buchanan, Nathan Saliba, Stephen Eustáquio, and Liam Millar. Up front, Jonathan David and Tani Oluwaseyi.
No Alphonso Davies. And it didn’t matter.
THE FIRST HALF: BAFANA BAFANA PLAY SCARED
From the opening whistle, South Africa did something inexplicable for a team playing at the World Cup Round of 32 with real attacking talent: they played backwards. Not occasionally. Systemically.
Ronwen Williams, Khuliso Mudau, Teboho Mokoena, Sphephelo Sithole — every time they received the ball under the slightest pressure, the instinct was identical. Back. Back. Back. Pass it to the goalkeeper. Reset. Repeat. It was as if the other half of the pitch was on fire and nobody told them the match only counts if you cross halfway.
Canada meanwhile pressed intelligently under Jesse Marsch. By the midway point of the first half, they already had significantly more touches in the opposition box and more shot attempts. The attacking intent was one-sided — and it was coming from Canada.
The closest moment of the half came when Moïse Bombito rose high to meet a cross and directed a header goalward, only for Aubrey Modiba to make a stunning clearance off the goal line. South Africa surviving — not through organization or tactical discipline, but through sheer fortune and the desperation of their own defender rescuing them.
In the 44th minute, Stephen Eustáquio swung in a corner. Tani Oluwaseyi headed it but sent it sailing over the bar. Canada were the better side and everyone in the stadium knew it. When the half-time whistle blew, Jesse Marsch was visibly unhappy with the referee — but he was winning the match in every statistical category that matters.

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