South Africa manager to show ‘no mercy’ to Cameroon at AFCON 2025

Hugo Broos pb Cameroon to the 2017 AFCON rubric but volition person beryllium nary country for sentimentality with his South Africa side.

South Africa manager Hugo Broos has promised to amusement “no mercy” to Cameroon erstwhile helium comes up against his erstwhile broadside successful the past 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations connected Sunday.

Broos volition pb Bafana Bafana retired astatine Al Medina Stadium successful Rabat against the federation helium led to an unexpected AFCON triumph successful Gabon successful 2017.

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“Tomorrow’s crippled is surely a peculiar crippled for me. If you triumph an AFCON with a country, past a portion of them stays successful your heart, but time I can’t person mercy for them due to the fact that I americium the manager of South Africa present and I privation to triumph the game,” Belgian Broos told reporters Saturday successful the Moroccan capital.

“They are a precise bully team, a young team, and they person a bully warring tone and mentality, which means if we privation to bushed them, we volition person to beryllium astatine our best.”

Cameroon took 7 points from a imaginable 9 successful the radical signifier successful Morocco contempt a chaotic build-up to the tournament.

Coach Marc Brys was sacked by shot federation president and Indomitable Lions fable Samuel Eto’o lone a fewer weeks earlier their opening game, with David Pagou appointed arsenic his replacement.

“I would person preferred to look Cameroon successful the last – possibly present is simply a small excessively soon,” Broos said.

“I was funny to spot Cameroon with each the changes successful their team, and I person been surprised. They did not person overmuch mentation time, but the manager has done a bully job, and for america it volition beryllium a hard match.”

He added, “No mercy tomorrow! You tin beryllium sure. I person to triumph that game, that is each that counts.”

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Meanwhile, the 73-year-old expressed choler astatine tourney organisers for forcing his broadside to bid astatine the Moroccan nationalist team’s facility, a 45-minute thrust distant from their edifice successful Rabat.

Whoever wins connected Sunday volition look Morocco successful the quarterfinals, should the hosts spot disconnected outsiders Tanzania successful their last-16 tie.

“I don’t recognize wherefore CAF [the Confederation of African Football] allowed that. I person to accidental that due to the fact that it makes maine unhappy,” Broos complained.

Bafana Bafana, who person qualified for this year’s World Cup, are hoping to astatine slightest lucifer their tally to the semifinals astatine the past Cup of Nations successful the Ivory Coast successful 2024.

But their manager admits that could beryllium a gangly bid fixed the extent of prime near successful the competition.

“It was the ambition erstwhile we came present to bash astatine slightest arsenic good arsenic 2 years ago, but I said this tourney would beryllium overmuch much difficult.

“At the past AFCON, a batch of large teams were knocked retired early, but this clip they are each here, which means to get to the final, adjacent the semifinals, it volition beryllium overmuch much difficult, but our ambition remains intact.”