Stop this Springbok /Bafana Bafana Comparison. There are only 5 countries,6 at best, in the World that compete with the Boks for the World Cup. Over 30 well-resourced countries compete with Bafana for the World Cup. Never watch Bafana with Springboks expectations, ever!
🗣️ Van Dijk : Nous devons souligner ce qu’a fait Frenkie. Il a tout donné pour être présent aujourd’hui, et cela n’a pas été facile pour lui. Beaucoup de choses ont été dites à son sujet, mais il a encore une fois livré un excellent match et s’est battu malgré la douleur pour l’équipe nationale. Pour moi, Frenkie est l’un des meilleurs milieux de terrain au monde. Et il le prouve chaque semaine.
🚨⚠️ Frenkie de Jong: “Many people actually understand nothing about football. They watch, but they don’t really see.
“I hear people saying I never play forward passes… but that’s simply not true. Then you’re not really watching”, told VI.
Let me educate you not with anger, but with truth. You assume South Africans lack exposure. You assume we believe other African countries are poor and undeveloped. That is not the case. We know the reality. We know Nigeria has oil. We know Ghana has gold. We know Kenya has tech. We know Botswana has diamonds. We know Zambia has copper. We know Zimbabwe has platinum and lithium. We know the DRC sits on $24 trillion in minerals. We know Africa is rich.
But here is what you do not understand, wealth beneath the ground does not translate to prosperity above it. You can have all the minerals in the world but if your leaders steal, your constitutions hostile towards humans rights, if your institutions are corrupt, if your people are divided by tribe, if your healthcare collapses, if your schools crumble, if your youth flee then you are poor. Not in resources. In governance. In accountability. In dignity.
We do not look down on Africa. We look at the mirror Africa refuses to face. We see our own flaws corruption, unemployment, crime and we fight them. We protest. We vote. We demand better. That is what makes us different. We do not run. We stay. We build. We hold our leaders accountable, even when it hurts.
You say we lack exposure. But we see you. We see your leaders flying overseas to get treated, some in our country to get medical treatment, while your children starve. We see your ports exporting raw minerals while your people have no jobs. We are not blind. We are not ignorant. We are honest.
The difference between South Africa and many other African countries is not wealth. It is the willingness to confront failure. We own ours. You run from yours. That is not a lack of exposure. That is a lack of accountability. And until you fix that, no mineral, no resource, no tweet will save you. Go home. Fix your house. Then talk to us about exposure.
niggas are telling me it's better to play against a south korean side first 11 than a rested team LOL. if you think we have the technical ability, strength, height, tactics and runners to match those guys i don't know what world you're living in 🙆🏽♂️