When most international football coaches are appointed in the continent, one of the first thing that they do is to draw a plan to visit some of the key players who ply their trade in Europe. The main idea is not just to assess how they are playing but also to get progress reports from their club coaches and formulate working relations with them on how the particular players can best be utilized by the national teams. By the time Avram Grant went into camp for the current African Nations Cup competition, he had visited some of the Ghanaian national team players and their clubs. The problems Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba has with some of the overseas-based players are well documented. Speaking after Bafana’s exit in the AFCON tournament last night where they lost to Ghana 2-1 at Estadio Mongomo, Mashaba doesn’t see a need of visiting the overseas-based players…