{"id":30963,"date":"2025-06-05T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=30963"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:23:20","slug":"basadien-to-captain-bafana-against-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/06\/05\/basadien-to-captain-bafana-against-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Basadien to captain Bafana against Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30964\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-713x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-713x770.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-1084x1170.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-768x829.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-1422x1536.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-1897x2048.jpg 1897w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fawaaz Basadien of South Africa during the 2025 International Friendly South Africa Press conference at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on 5 June 2025 \u00a9Alche Greeff\/BackpagePix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stellenbosch FC left-back, Fawaaz Basadien, will captain Bafana Bafana on Friday in the international friendly against Tanzania at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane. Bafana will also play Mozambique on Tuesday in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s coach, Hugo Broos, says Orlando Pirates defender, Nkosinathi Sibisi, will lead the side on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the side arriving in Polokwane, Broos had said that Sibisi will captain the team for both matches. However, keeping with his promise to give all players in his team game time, he has backed the revered full-back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a question of who will play the first game. So, Sibisi will play the second game,\u201d explained Broos. \u201cHe is our captain, but as I said, I want to give play time to everyone. So you have to look a little bit to see who I will put in the team. You can\u2019t put all youngsters in one team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Basadien says he was taken aback when he was handed the armband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I didn\u2019t expect it to come so soon. But at the same time, it\u2019s an honour and a privilege to be captain of the national team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obviously one of the things you want to dream about growing up as a footballer. But I didn\u2019t expect it to come as soon as it came, but I am ready and prepared to help those who are young in the team. When I first came into the team, there were guys who helped me. So I am willing to do that now with the young players.\u201d <strong>Written by Ntsako Mkhari<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellenbosch FC left-back, Fawaaz Basadien, will captain Bafana Bafana on Friday in the international friendly against Tanzania at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane. Bafana will also play Mozambique on Tuesday in Pretoria. South Africa&#8217;s coach, Hugo Broos, says Orlando Pirates defender, Nkosinathi Sibisi, will lead the side on ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/new-bafana-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30965,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions\/30965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}