{"id":21989,"date":"2013-08-19T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/bafana-win-over-burkina-faso-delights-coach-igesund\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:30:35","slug":"bafana-win-over-burkina-faso-delights-coach-igesund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bafana-win-over-burkina-faso-delights-coach-igesund\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana win over Burkina Faso delights coach Igesund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13851\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13851\" alt=\"Bafana Bafana captain Itumeleng Khune lifts the trophy as South Africa celebrate victory over Burkina Faso during their international friendly at FNB Stadium in Soweto on Saturday. Photo: Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6886a_Bafana%2BBafana.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bafana Bafana captain Itumeleng Khune lifts the trophy as South Africa celebrate victory over Burkina Faso during their international friendly at FNB Stadium in Soweto on Saturday. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Following his side\u2019s easy 2-0 win over Burkina Faso on Saturday, Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund says he is delighted with the ever-increasing pool of talent in South African soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Igesund handed three players debut starts. Marc van Heerden, Bongani Zungu and David Mathebula were all included in the starting line-up for the friendly that formed part of the inaugural Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture day at FNB Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able, without any fear, to put a few fringe players in so that I could have a good look at them,\u201d Igesund said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a good idea of where we are with certain players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of talent in this country, we have a lot of talent playing overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Siphiwe Tshabalala and Luyolo Nomandela reversed Bafana\u2019s fortunes, after they lost by the same scoreline to Nigeria just three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bafanas-tshabalala-and-nomandela-sink-burkina-faso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igesund added that he was pleased with his team\u2019s performance<\/a>, particularly after their lacklustre defeat on Wednesday. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witness.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more breaking Bafana Bafana news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/bafana-bafana\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bafanas-tshabalala-and-nomandela-sink-burkina-faso\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6886a_194655891_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bafanas-tshabalala-and-nomandela-sink-burkina-faso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bafana\u2019s Tshabalala and Nomandela sink Burkina Faso<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-expects-tight-game-between-bafana-and-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6886a_193263826_80_803.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-expects-tight-game-between-bafana-and-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igesund expects tight game between Bafana and Nigeria<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e9986_191676024_80_802.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igesund picks Bafana players on form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e9986_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana captain Itumeleng Khune lifts the trophy as South Africa celebrate victory over Burkina Faso during their international friendly at FNB Stadium in Soweto on Saturday. Photo: Gallo Images Following his side\u2019s easy 2-0 win over Burkina Faso on Saturday, Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund says he is delighted with the ever-increasing pool of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}