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 Parreira has arrived!
    Jonty Mark
    November 05 2009 at 09:45AM
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  • Galery: Parreira's back!

    The second coming of Carlos Alberto Parreira began officially early Thursday morning as he strode into OR Tambo international airport to again take up the helm of Bafana Bafana.

    Smartly dressed in a matching jacket and trousers, and looking relatively fresh-faced after a long flight from Brazil, the 66 year old Rio De Janeiro native pronounced himself "very happy to be here", before being escorted into a white Mercedes and whizzed off to Sandton, which will be his home from home for the next few months.

    Parreira will be in charge of the South African national team until the end of the 2010 World Cup, and faces a difficult task in reviving the morale of a side that has lost eight of its last nine internationals, and has slumped to 85th in the Fifa World Rankings.
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    The Brazilian, who is again expected to earn an salary of R1.8 million a month, will also have to win over the South African public, many of whom were against his return to a post he resigned from in March 2008, to return home to Brazil to attend to his sick wife, Leila. It was widely hoped that Safa would appoint a local coach, rather than turn to a man whose first spell in charge of Bafana garnered average results at best.

    Parreira was expected to attend a lunchtime press conference to announce the Bafana squad for friendlies against Japan in Port Elizabeth on November 14, and Jamaica in Bloemfontein on November 17.

    The South African Football Association, however, have said that Parreira will not be discussing the Bafana squad, which is set to be announced by his assistants, Pitso Mosimane and Jairo Leal.

    The Bafana coach will instead hold his own press conference in Johannesburg on Friday.

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    13 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
    Well said from an anonymous 5 hrs ago. This IDIOT and a has been world cup coach of Brazil now returns to SA to join forces with the SAFA IDIOTS. AIKONA, I don't like it at all. Just imagine R1.8 Mill every month going into this coach's bank a/c, for what???? transforming Bafana Bafana into a bunch of banana bananas???? AIKONA, big problems ahead.
    13 Weeks ago Mitah wrote :
    I do not think his come back will make any difference, he only came to collect money from South Africa. This man does not have any interest of South Africa at heart, the fact that when he left he recommended an inexperience person to take over Bafana Bafana as a coach. He himself Santana is not feeling bad, he has gain a lot especially learning English at the expense of South Africans.
    13 Weeks ago South African Rocks for 2010 wrote :
    I dont think he should coach our South African side again, when he left, he felt nothing, we suffered couple of months without him, why take him back, use our local coaches, I am sure they are capable of being a coach, it is not a coach that makes the team, it is up to the players
    13 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
    This idiot won the world cup with Brazil 15 years ago. It is exactly 15 years since the ANC took over. What do you expect.
    13 Weeks ago Ivor - CPT wrote :
    It's a Bloody Circus I tell you!!!! R1.8 Mill... I went help in the Community to build a House which costs R60K and these families are hungry and unemployed. The Children go to school barefoot and hungry... they dont have bags to put their books in. They have broken Text Books!!! BUT WE SPEND R1.8 Mill on a Stupid Coach who will not even get past the Knockout round!!!! South African Government and SAFA are Useless idiots!!!!
    13 Weeks ago Graham F wrote :
    Does his wife call him Carlos or Alberto. Why do we use both his names? He is an out of work coach fired by Brazil, why do we have him?
    13 Weeks ago G wrote :
    dear anonymous,

    not sure that would help, boycotting isn't a solution. Seems most of the time everybody is forgetting that the wc2010 is not the PSL, here we talking about 'the' event in soccer. So, having a world out there who knows a coach like Pareirra is half of the entire game. Now Bafana must get their stuff together and start to play lekker again. I mean, 11 people on the field and 1 on the side, thats need2be fair play now, give him a chance and the boys too. He had issues with his wife, fine, we should respect that, don't you think?! I also didn't like that he all of the sudden left, but now he must force the guys into the right direction and bring back the spririt into the team. 2010 is now just around the corner and if we not all support Bafana, than i can't see why the team should work. You're right R1.8mio is a lot of moolas, to much i agree but it is fixed now, and we have to get used to that fact. All that I can say is support Bafana and get u vuvuzela out in 2010. its all about the game and being proudly south african. we need to show the world that SA supports their boys and the new coach, which is respected all over the world. So, keep it going and keep it real!!! Cheers
    13 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
    This is a big joke. The man was a good coach at some point because he had very good players that would have won the world cup without a coach anyway. Apart from that result what else has this man won with which country. He just happens to market himself so well with the way he speaks. He won't add any value. What a waste of time and money. These guys have found a honey pot in safa.
    13 Weeks ago Blesbok wrote :
    Yipeeeeeee, I'm so happy!!! - now our "national treasure" can start their winning streak to next year's world cup!!!!
    13 Weeks ago muchamama wrote :
    its like taking a VW Chico 1.3 paint it in black , put porsche bages all over it and expect it to win a race with original porshe cars .Moral of the story , you can not win games by employing an expensive coach who was fired 3 weeks ago .Parreira dn Santana are a luaghing stock in Brazil. A brazilian friend was telling me that the brazilians are actually shocked on the high regard we give these 2 palooooooooooookas . You wonder why the word is in recession , of course with such kind of bad investments what do you expect .I will be supporting Ivory Cost so as to avoid heartache or heart attack
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