Legendary star adamant Bafana Bafana won’t be in World Cup ‘to just add numbers’

South Africa are among the 48 teams that will compete in the 2026 World Cup to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Hugo Broos’ men will be taking part in the tournament for the first time since 2010 when they hosted it. In the draw done on Friday night, Mzansi were placed in Group A alongside Mexico, Korea Republic, and the winner of the play off between Denmark, North Macedonia, Czech Republic, and Ireland.

South Africa will start their journey on June 11 against the hosts at the Estadio Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

The second fixture will beon June 18 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta where they will be facing a European Playoffs Winner (Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland, Denmark or North Macedonia).

South Africa’s final Group A game will be staged at Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe against the Korea Republic on June 24.

Williams adamant Bafana Bafana will make an impact

South Africa captain Ronwen Williams welcomed the draw, and insisted they will not be pushovers in their pool.

“It’s nice to play against the host nation because of course the country will get behind them. There’s a lot of familiar faces that we will be up against. South Korea, there’s some players that we played against at the FIFA Club World Cup, who play for Ulsan HD,” he told SuperSport TV.

“Yeah, I think it’s a fair group, a good group, one that we believe that we can go and get out of that group.

“You can never say where you gonna get points and where you gonna drop them. Every game has its own challenges, we will go out to each game believing that we can win it and get results. We don’t want to be there to just add numbers, we wanna see how far we’ve come as a country and believe that we can do wonders.

“We don’t want to put pressure on ourselves, this is our first time in a very long time to be part of that prestige tournament. We believe that we’re capable of getting out of that group,” Williams concluded.