The South African Men’s U20 National Team has gone into camp in preparation for a practice match against Malawi on Saturday, 19 April 2014 at Nike Football Training Centre in Pimville, Soweto. 

The match is scheduled to kick-off at 13h00.

Bafana Bafana assistant coach Serame Letsoaka, who has called up 18 players for the encounter, will lead the squad in place of coach Ephraim ‘Shakes’ Mashaba who is in Namibia.

Mashaba accompanied Amajimbos to Namibia where they are taking part in the Four Nations tournament involving hosts Namibia, Ghana and a select team from Germany.

Letsoaka has had to call up an almost completely different team to the U20 squad that recently won the COSAFA Tournament in Lesotho with Mashaba as most of those players are taking part in the annual Bayhill Metropolitan U19 Premier Cup currently underway in Cape Town.

The U/20 squad will have their first training session at the match venue on Thursday at 10h30 and 16h00.

”This is an important period for all our national teams as we have a very busy schedule, all in line with our vision of getting them to be as active as possible and not wait until the qualifiers of their respective levels,” said SAFA President Dr Danny Jordaan.

“This past weekend we had Banyana Banyana playing against Zimbabwe and they will soon be going into camp to face Scotland away. We currently have U17 Men’s team in Namibia playing in a Four Nations Tournament. The U20 Men’s team is in camp to face Malawi on Saturday at Nike Centre.

“Next weekend, we have the start of the SAFA U19 Youth Championship in Bloemfontein. All our national teams are busy. We might not see immediate results but this is a solid foundation for all of our national teams to participate competitively on the international stage.”

As the encounter against Malawi is a practice match, no caps will be awarded.-TDN
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