Jomo Sono: SAFA must address ABC Motsepe League challenges

Sono, whose club is now going into its third season in the country’s third tier, says it’s sad that the standard of this league keeps on deteriorating and the football motherbody in the country is doing nothing about that. 

Sono says SAFA urgently needs solutions for its ailing amateur football structures.

"The problem I've noticed in South African football is that, with the officials and everybody else, we don't discuss football – there's no discussions here," bemoaned Sono.

"If the chairman or leader has decided, this is it, it must be like that. There's never been meetings where we discuss the way forward for football – how can we restructure this ABC Motsepe League.

"Because you play the whole year, and you win, [then] you go to the play-offs and get knocked out – only in two games, you are out, it doesn't make sense, it's painful.

"But we need to sit down as football people, they must open up to us, call us to a football indaba, where everybody is given an opportunity to say something.

"Journalists should be involved, you can appoint maybe 10 supporters from different clubs to be involved, and the chairmen of the clubs, and let's sit down and talk about football.

"If we think football in the amateur [ranks] is going the right way, let's sit down and talk – we must not fight or hammer each other in the press, there is so much that can be exposed now about amateur football, but it's not the time or the [manner to say it] now.

"We need to sit down and talk about the way forward – solutions – for football in the country."

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