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Hugo Broos excited as South Africa aims for AFCON glory | Magic 828 | SA News

IT WOULD be stretching it a little to suggest Hugo Broos resembled a kid in a sweetshop as he anticipated the start of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Yet for a coach going into his third tournament, the old man’s excitement was palpable. And that’s a good thing as South Africa seek to win only their second title in three decades.

There was no air of ‘been there, done that’ – as would have been the case with some coaches – as the Belgian coach of Bafana Bafana addressed the media ahead of their Group B opener against Angola in Marrakech tonight (7pm kick-off). Instead, there was a glint in the septuagenarian’s eye as he reflected on his previous two experiences which yielded…

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