SAFA Technical Director says despite a high number of qualified women coaches in SA, more are needed

Speaking exclusively to SABC Sport, the former Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs chief scout says as a country we are a leader in terms of women coaches, so much so that we have started exporting them.

Shilene Booysen and Sheryl Botes are currently coaching in Egypt and Uganda respectively. Steenbok says this can only help deliver lots of young national team players.

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"This is very interesting if you look at the number of coach educators who are women already in South Africa, 15 of them are females and we've got 96 who are male. These numbers are quite higher than anywhere else in the world," Steenbok said.

"If you check in terms of the CAF A-Licence, we have 371 coaches who are qualified at A-licence by now. I mean this stat doesn't include the numbers that just graduated now, 29 of those are coaches. So, South Africa already now had 29 coaches who are qualified at A-Licence. If you check at B-Licence we have 1 212 coaches and 60 of them are female. So, we have 60 female coaches in South Africa at B-licence and remember, we once did a level 3, a SAFA pro-licence. We've got 54 coaches who are qualified with our SAFA pro-licence."

Steenbok is also excited that in South Africa’s elite women’s football league, the Hollywoodbets Super League, 90 percent of coaches are meeting the coaching requirements that have been set up.

Steenbok is currently awaiting an internal Disciplinary Committee hearing and will face five charges in the SAFA DC.

The date of the hearing was postponed from Tuesday, 25 June to an unknown date.