Bafana Bafana went down 1-0 to Brazil last night as they missed out on reaching the Confederations Cup Final. Very few people gave us any hope in last nights game but credit must go to the boys for putting up such a brave fight. If Captain Aron did not give away that silly freekick on the edge of the box that Brazil subsequently scored from, I believe we could have gone into extra time and then penalties and we could have won.

But we must take a lot of heart away from the performance last night. It just went to show that we can mix it up with the big boys of world soccer. My main worry though is that with all the possession and game play we had, we failed to score. The reason I say that we are so close but yet so far is that we are close to having a good team that is very capable of making us proud come the World Cup in 2010, but we are so far from having striker or the attacking strength to really become a strong force. The fact that we only score two goals in the whole tournament which we played four games does not sit down well with me. We need to attack more and score goals.

This Confederations Cup was meant to be Theko’s tournament to shine but he let us down big time. Maybe we put too much pressure on him to perform and it became a bit too much. I hope he can learn from this and he will be ready for 2010. With our lack of goals, I got to think, should we recall Benni McCarthy? We need someone come 2010 who knows how to score.

But all in all, well done Bafana, you did not let us down last night against Brazil. We can build from this experience and be ready for 2010.