Football Partnerships

By DOMINIC PEEL

To many it may have come a bit late, but South Africa’s soccer bosses are out looking for a technical director to improve the lot of their national teams.

The SA Football Association (Safa) will start the process next week by advertising for the post of Football Technical Director.

The technical director’s duties are widely varied, as the task of the new person would be to assist coaches to ensure all national teams qualify for all international competitions such as the Olympics in 2010, and the All-Africa Games a year later. Another responsibility would be to try to ensure Bafana Bafana win the 2012 African Cup of Nations. The post is part of the 2010 Technical Legacy Programme, which was set up in reaction to the poor performances by South Africa’s national teams at African and World Cup competitions.

The project, the brainchild of Safa president Molefi Oliphant, is geared to review Safa’s development strategy aimed at “corrective measures where gaps are identified”. Safa communications director Morio Sanyane said the technical director “will drive the development programme of the association” and serve as head of all technical structures.

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