Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Jayden Adams is among the players who made the Bafana Bafana squad for the 2026 Group C Fifa World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin respectively.
The 23-year-old was dropped from the initial team that played Congo Brazzaville in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on disciplinary grounds. He has since joined Masandawana where he has made an immediate impact, having scored two goals and provided an assist in the 12 games played across all competitions.
It explains why the Belgian included him in his squad for the international assignments. The 72-year-old has explained his decision and how the indiscipline issue was handled before a decision to give the former Stelelnbosch midfielder another chance was made.
‘I didn't see a reason for not calling him'
“I hope he learned a lot about what he did and that was what I wanted to achieve [by dropping him]. He knows what he did, you can’t do that. When you have a call-up for the national team you do everything to come, to get there,” he said during the naming of the final squad.
“I said it already in the moment itself I wanted to just to show him Jayden this is not the right attitude to have. But he’s quality and Jayden as a player I like him. He is a good player and he plays [well] again with Sundowns.
“So I didn’t see a reason why I shouldn’t call him up now again. I was afraid that he wouldn’t play so much because you know Sundowns has a lot of players and they play a lot of games also. He has managed to be a standard [regular] player for the moment and therefore I’m very happy,” Broos concluded.
Bafana hosts Lesotho on Friday 21st before playing Benin four days later, away.
