Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund’s job is on the line following a humiliating 3-1 loss to Nigeria that saw his team crashing out of the African Nations Championship at Cape Town Stadium. A brace from man of the match Ejike Uzoenyi, and strike from Ifeanyi Ede were enough to seal the game long before Bernard Parker’s 23rd international goal from the penalty spot 10 minutes from full-time. Igesund who had failed his past two mandates of reaching the 2013 African Nations Cup semi-finals and qualifying for the 2014 World Cup does not seem to understand the consequences of this result…

There was no mandate from the SAFA leadership to Igesund for this tournament but being knocked out of the CHAN tournament with arguably some of a stronger squad of locally based players is inviting trouble for him. A high level meeting is believed to have taken place that involved the coach and the senior SAFA management possibly discussing the consequences of this result. And Igesund says he will accept any decision taken by his superiors…

Nigeria finished second in the group with five points, two points behind group winners Mali who beat Mozambique 2-1 at Athlone stadium. Nigeria will meet winners of Group B and Mali come up against losers of the same group in the last eight. The Super Eagles had lost their opening game but head coach Stephen Keshi has more on how they managed to bounce back…

Moeneeb Josephs played his first game for the national team since September 2012 during the two-nil win over Mozambique and it turned out to be a disaster as his howler led to a penalty and after only 27 minutes the score was 2-0. The Bidvest Wits goalkeeper has apologized to the nation…

Keshi showed faith in his goalkeeper Chigozie Agbim who had conceded four goals before this tournament and was criticized back home for his mistakes. Agbim who is a third goalkeeper in the Super Eagles regular national squad was Nigeria’s best player after Ozoenyi, making crucial saves against Bafana. And Keshi believes in his man…

This was Nigeria’s seventh win over South Africa and fifth in a competitive game, Bafana has beaten the Super Eagles only once in an international friendly in 2004. Igesund had dismissed Nigeria’s dominance over SA prior to this game and there was no place to hide in the post match conference…Journalist: Velile Mbuli