Da Gama slams Baxter for changing ‘his’ Bafana squad
Highlands Park coach Owen da Gama was left disappointed by Stuart Baxter's decision to build a new Bafana Bafana squad when he took over from him as the national team coach.
Owen Da Gama coach of Highlands Park (Pic Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix)
Da Gama would have liked Baxter to continue with the squad he assembled when he was the interim Bafana coach.
“I’m just disappointed not because it was my team but because it was the national team. Of course people started to say it is Owen Da Gama’s team and that’s when people start disassembling. It is wrong. We should have taken that team and built strongly on it and kept the consistency,” Da Gama was quoted as saying by IOL.
Meanwhile, Da Gama is happy with the progress made by Lebogang Maboe, whom he called up during his time as the Bafana interim coach.
Maboe, who was playing for Maritzburg United when Da Gama included him in his Bafana squad, has since joined Mamelodi Sundowns and is getting Bafana call-ups.
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