1. South African players don’t have team spirit.
South African players seem as though they play for themselves and they really don’t give a “you know what” about the team.
Players don’t take on the responsibility of pulling their team out of the fire and giving them the oomph to be victorious at the end of the day. When things go wrong players don’t look for the ball anymore and they go into hiding because they are afraid of criticism.
2. South African players are ‘cheese-boys’.
These players are weak mentally and physically. When they play against these sides from Africa they just become –for a lack of a better word- wussy’s… yes… wussy’s (wuss-A weak or ineffectual person (Often used as a general term of abuse)) they just roll over and die.
3. South African teams don’t take the competition seriously.
I don’t think the teams take this competition as serious as they should there was a time Kaiser Chiefs got banned from the Champions League for three years or so because they didn’t want to play a scheduled away match...Are you kidding? And this past Sunday Orlando Pirates looked as though they hadn’t prepared at all for the Angolan club which embarrassed them in PE.
I don’t know if these teams are of the impression that they are too “good” to be playing in this tournament not knowing that its actually a privilege to be playing with Africa’s elite clubs, or maybe they feel that it wouldn’t make sense to over exert their players in a competition they have no chance of winning.
4. Maybe South African teams really aren’t good enough.
Possibly South African teams are not good enough to perform in the Champions League because as we all know the quality of South African soccer has taking a dip in the past 15 years, so maybe just maybe PSL teams suck…
5. South African players aren’t resilient.
Being resilient is being able to withstand or recuperate quickly from difficult conditions. Whether it’s Bafana Bafana or the U/23 or whatever it’s evident to me and evident to everyone who is an avid South African soccer watcher that players in our country just aren’t strong enough mentally to recover from daunting positions and this I feel is one of the major problems with our football.
