SAFA dimisses reports about the new coach

The South African Football Association's technical committee has dismissed reports that England’s Sven-Goran Eriksson is their number one choice as Bafana Bafana head coach. Committee chairperson Sturu Pasiya says that they have not offered Eriksson the job and were not interested in him. Weekend reports said that he had been offered 30-million rands per year to take over the job. The 7th of next month has been set as the new deadline to let the Safa executive know of their candidate. The names on the shortlist are Carlos Alberto Parreira, Luis Felipe Scolari, Gerrard Houllier, Claude Le Roy, Jomo Sono and Gordon Igesund.