Afcon 2019: When will South African fans stop expecting Bafana to be Brazil?

Beautiful, tricksy football is an identity, a reputation, a status, that South Africa football fans hold dear. But at which point does a that reputation become a myth? "The fans want us to play like Brazil," one South African journalist told me ahead of Bafana Bafana's Africa Cup of Nations opener against the Ivory Coast in Cairo. "They expect us to play like Brazil." Their international football cannot be measured by success on the pitch; Bafana only have one Africa Cup of Nations success to their...

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