A meeting between Manqoba Mngqithi and Hugo Broos has been scheduled to happen this afternoon at Chloorkop, with the Mamelodi Sundowns coach revealing why it's important for them to iron things out.
Mngqithi hit back at Bafana Bafana coach Broos after the Belgian questioned him for not playing Teboho Mokoena and Khulisi Mudau before the recent international break.
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Both Mokoena and Mudau have been key for Broos, who wants to see them playing regularly at club level, but Mngqithi made it clear that he makes the final decision on who plays at Sundowns. To avoid any more public spats in future, a meeting will be held at Chloorkop today to get to the bottom of things.
"With regard to Coach Broos, my utterances and his utterances, we will be having a meeting with him tomorrow (today) at Chloorkop, so I think we will move forward and create a better environment because he's got a lot of our players," Mngqithi said last night after Sundowns' emphatic 5-0 victory over Golden Arrows in the Carling Knockout last 16 at Lucas Moripe Stadium.
"We support the national team and we support SAFA (South African Football Association) in general, because even in the junior national teams we've got a lot of players there. It's only proper for us as coaches or as leaders of these institutions to try and find each other and to communicate about these things."
Mngqithi believes there are even more players at Sundowns who can get into the national team and meeting can give him an opportunity to talk to Broos about some of the individuals he feels can add value to the national team.
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"I think it's only for the good because you find that there are other players he may not have looked at very closely, but when we communicate and he gets to know what I feel about those individuals, it makes his life easier because I believe he's got a big pool of players he can get from our club, from Pirates, from Chiefs, from SuperSport and all these clubs. But without good relations between the coaches, it makes it difficult to assist where we think we can assist."
