By OBAKENG MAJE
The South African U-20 Men’s National Team (Amajita), will begin their programme for the year in March 2024 with a week-long training camp under the stewardship of the newly-appointed head coach, Raymond Mdaka. The camp will be held on 21- 28 March 2024 at the SAFA Technical Centre in the south of Johannesburg. The gathering will be the first of many ahead of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers in September 2024.
Mdaka will be working alongside Donald Mojaki, who is currently coaching Sol Plaatje University, Karabo Mogudi from the University of Johannesburg’s Varsity Cup and ABC Motsepe League coach and former Bafana Bafana international, Reneilwe Letsholonyane. These coaches will form part of the technical team under the guidance of SAFA Technical Director, Walter Steenbok.
Mdaka, who spoke to www.safa.netahead of the camp said: “We are looking forward to building a great team. We have selected players that are currently doing very well in their respective leagues.
“We believe that we have a comprehensive plan for the next two years. Following the SAFA Methodology workshop, which was hosted in January 2024, we have a very good understanding of the mandate set for us as the U20 national team.”
Mdaka further said he is confident that they will be able to deliver on it. He added that they are very excited about the first camp, where we have called up 41 players.
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