South Africa brought Zimbabwean performance analyst Tinashe-Shingai Mukandatsama onto their technical staff for the Africa Cup of Nations, kicking off in Morocco. The guy works at Mamelodi Sundowns and helped the South African Under-20 squad win their continental championship before heading to the youth World Cup with them.
The appointment puts him in a weird spot because his birth country, Zimbabwe, got drawn into the same group as Bafana Bafana alongside Egypt and Angola. He will be crunching opposition data and building match strategies against the Warriors while representing the team that gave him his break.
People online had mixed energy about it, with some Zimbabweans hyping up his success and others joking that he will catch blame if South Africa takes an L in the tournament.
The appointment puts him in a weird spot because his birth country, Zimbabwe, got drawn into the same group as Bafana Bafana alongside Egypt and Angola. He will be crunching opposition data and building match strategies against the Warriors while representing the team that gave him his break.
People online had mixed energy about it, with some Zimbabweans hyping up his success and others joking that he will catch blame if South Africa takes an L in the tournament.
