SAFA have confirmed a new coach for Bafana Bafana's upcoming CHAN qualifiers against Egypt.
Bafana assistant coach Helman Mkhalele was initially set to take charge of the team for the qualifiers.
It has now been confirmed that Molefi Ntseki will take charge of the for the first leg, which has been moved to Sunday.
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"Remember, in the last NEC meeting, the SAFA technical committee recommended coach Molefi Ntseki after he was interviewed to head the technical development of SAFA, specifically the academies and junior teams as a manager," SAFA Technical Committee Chairman Jack Maluleke told the SAFA website.
"After we got information that the South African senior national team coach requested that Helman Mkhalele must be recused from this team because we have the priority of Bafana Bafana playing 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin in a few weeks' time, we agreed.
"Therefore, we as SAFA realized that after the NEC endorsed the name of Molefi Ntseki, we had to check who can replace Mkhalele at this point in time. We thought of him (Ntseki) because he's the most senior and we requested him to be deployed there on a temporary basis to step in for Helman and he will be assisted by the head coach of the SA U20s (Mdaka).
"Coach Ntseki is there because he's in the system and we requested him to assist because we needed somebody who can step in because this is an urgent matter."
The first leg will get underway at 17h00 at the Free State Stadium.
