Bafana Bafana's COSAFA Cup head coach Morena Ramoreboli says that Rowan Human and his other Maritzburg United teammates are too good to gown down to the Motsepe Foundation Championship.
Human has been a star performer for Bafana at the ongoing COSAFA Cup tournament since coming off the bench at half-time against Namibia in the opening group game and scored the equaliser in a 1-1 draw.
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The former Bidvest Wits midfielder went on to start in the last two group games, where Bafana came from behind on two occasions to beat Botswana and Eswatini, both 2-1 to progress to the semi-finals.
Ramoreboli, who also has Bonginkosi Makume and Genino Palace in his squad from Maritzburg, has suggested that the Team of Choice players don't deserve to go down to the National First Division following their relegation, especially Human, as "they are very talented".
"90 percent if not all the players that are playing for Maritzburg, personally, I don't think really deserve to go down. Those guys were very good, it's just unfortunate that they've been relegated," Ramoreboli told the media.
"But a few of them that are here with us, you can see professionalism, you can see the talent, it's just unfortunate that we have not been able to play Genino Palace but we're trying our best to see how can we manage because this was one match (against Eswatini) we could not even risk making changes.
"But honestly speaking I don't really think Human and the rest of the guys at Maritzburg deserve to go and play in the First Division. They are very talented," he said.
Meanwhile, the future of Human has been one of the biggest anticipated moves in the current transfer window, with Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates reportedly interested in the 22-year-old.
Human, who hails from Westbury in Johannesburg, the same neighbourhood that produced the likes of Kaizer Chiefs star Keagan Dolly and previously Steven Pienaar, says he speaks a lot with Dolly and that it would be "nice" to play alongside him at Chiefs.
"I speak to Keagan a lot and I feel like there's not much pressure, but I need to keep working hard," Human told Sowetan.
"It will be nice to play with him (Dolly), but whatever happens, it happens."
To read the latest on Human's transfer story, get the latest copy of Soccer Laduma, issue 1332, out now at your nearest outlet.
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