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South Africa

Mosimane unveiled as coach

2010-07-15 17:54

Pitso Mosimane has officially been unveiled as South Africa's new coach, taking over from Carlos Alberto Parreira.

The 45-year-old, who has been serving as Bafana Bafana assistant for the past four years and was also the number two at the World Cup, was the only person in the running for the job.

He has signed a four-year contract.

Mosimane's candidacy was approved two weeks ago when the South African Football Association (SAFA) called an urgent press conference, only to announce that he would be assessed by a special technical committee, who were to report back within 14 days.

He was briefly in charge of the national team in 2006, prior to Brazilian Parreira's initial appointment.

"I have arrived here not to turn things upside down," Mosimane said. "But I will make changes if necessary, even if they are unpopular."

SAFA chief executive Leslie Sedibe explained that the former SuperSport United coach had performance clauses in his contract, which clearly stated that he needed to guide the team to qualification for the next two African Nations Cups as well as the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

"Pitso understands fully the performance goals he has to meet," he said.

"We are impressed and confident that he can achieve them."

South Africa begin their qualifying campaign for the 2012 continental championship with a home qualifier against Niger in September.

Sedibe also confirmed that Mosimane's first game in charge will be against World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana in a friendly at Soccer City on August 11.

He added: "We have worked tirelessly to secure quality opponents for our senior team in preparing for the tough assignment of qualifying for the AFCON finals.

"Our choice of opponents is an indication that we mean business, and we need to take on the best if we are to be the greatest on the African continent."

The 1996 African champions will also play another friendly against a yet to be named opponent on November 17.

Meanwhile, SAFA President Kirsten Nematandani has explained why the choice was made to appoint Mosimane.

"Our quest to become number one in the continent has started and the process is irreversible," he said on SAFA's website.

"Our latest improvement on the FIFA world rankings is an indication of the progress made, hence our decision to continue with the technical team that understand the significance of completing the long journey that we have started.

"We have pledged to rally behind all our national teams without failure, and the results are there to be seen, in particular reference to our under 17 girls who have qualified for the FIFA under 17 Women World Cup and our Development team that has qualified for the African Nations Championships.

"We will do the same with Bafana and we expect to qualify and do well in the upcoming AFCON and World Cup respectively."

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2010 SOCCER LOGS

Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H

SA PSL

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Sundowns	4	6	12
2. Ajax	3	5	9
3. Arrows	4	5	9
4. Chiefs	3	3	7
5. Santos	4	1	7
6. Bloem Celtic	4	1	6
7. Pirates	3	1	5
8. AmaZulu	4	-1	5
9. Wits	4	0	4
10. Vasco Da Gama	4	-1	4
11. Platinum Stars	4	-3	4
12. Free State Stars	4	-2	3
13. SuperSport	3	-3	3
14. Swallows	3	-3	1
15. Maritzburg	4	-6	1
16. B Aces	3	-3	0

English Premiership

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Chelsea	7	21	18
2. Man City	7	6	14
3. Man Utd	7	7	13
4. Arsenal	7	7	11
5. Tottenham	7	2	11
6. West Brom	7	-3	11
7. Stoke	7	-1	10
8. Aston Villa	7	-3	10
9. Blackpool	7	-4	10
10. Fulham	7	1	9
11. Sunderland	7	0	8
12. Bolton	7	-1	8
13. Blackburn	7	-1	8
14. Wigan	7	-9	8
15. Newcastle	7	0	7
16. Birmingham	7	-3	7
17. Everton	7	-1	6
18. Liverpool	7	-4	6
19. Wolverhampton	7	-5	5
20. West Ham	7	-9	5

English Premiership Scorers

Player	Team	G
1. Didier Drogba	Chelsea	6
2. Dimitar Berbatov	Man Utd	6
3. Florent Malouda	Chelsea	6
4. Carlos Tevez	Man City	5
5. Darren Bent	Sunderland	5
6. Andrew Carroll	Newcastle	4

Spanish La Liga Log

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Valencia	6	7	16
2. Villarreal	6	8	15
3. Real Madrid	6	10	14
4. Barcelona	6	5	13
5. Sevilla	6	4	11
6. Getafe	6	3	10
7. Atletico Madrid	6	3	10
8. Espanyol	6	-4	9
9. Mallorca	6	-1	8
10. Malaga	6	0	7
11. Athletic Bilbao	6	0	7
12. Hercules	6	-1	7
13. Real Sociedad	6	-3	7
14. Almeria	6	0	6
15. Osasuna	6	-2	5
16. Sporting Gijon	6	-5	5
17. Levante	6	-6	5
18. Racing Santander	6	-5	4
19. Real Zaragoza	6	-5	3
20. Deportivo La Coruna	6	-8	3

Italian Serie A

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Lazio	6	3	13
2. Inter Milan	6	5	11
3. Napoli	6	4	11
4. AC Milan	6	4	11
5. Chievo	6	3	10
6. Brescia	6	-1	9
7. Juventus	6	3	8
8. Palermo	6	1	8
9. Catania	6	1	8
10. Genoa	6	-1	8
11. Bari	6	-3	8
12. Lecce	6	-3	8
13. Cagliari	6	2	7
14. Sampdoria	6	1	7
15. Bologna	6	-1	7
16. Cesena	6	-3	7
17. Fiorentina	6	-1	5
18. Parma	6	-2	5
19. Roma	6	-6	5
20. Udinese	6	-6	4

German Bundesliga

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Mainz	7	11	21
2. Borussia Dortmund	7	13	18
3. Hannover	96	2	3
4. Bayer Leverkusen	7	3	12
5. SC Freiburg	7	0	12
6. TSG Hoffenheim	7	3	11
7. Hamburg	7	1	11
8. Wolfsburg	7	1	10
9. St Pauli	7	0	10
10. Eintracht Frankfurt	7	2	9
11. Nurnberg	7	-1	9
12. Bayern Munich	7	-3	8
13. Werder Bremen	7	-5	8
14. FC Kaiserslautern	7	-4	7
15. Borussia M''gladbach	7	-9	6
16. Cologne	7	-6	5
17. Schalke	04	5	-6
18. VfB Stuttgart	7	-3	3

French Ligue 1

Team	Pld	GD	Pts
1. Rennes	8	8	18
2. St Etienne	8	6	17
3. Lille	8	6	14
4. Toulouse	8	3	14
5. Brest	8	3	14
6. Sochaux	8	7	13
7. PSG	8	5	12
8. Marseille	8	4	12
9. Caen	8	0	12
10. Bordeaux	8	1	11
11. Montpellier	8	-2	11
12. Valenciennes	8	0	10
13. Nice	8	-3	10
14. Auxerre	8	1	8
15. Monaco	8	0	8
16. Lorient	8	-2	8
17. Lyon	8	-4	8
18. AS Nancy	8	-6	8
19. Lens	8	-10	5
20. Arles	8	-17	0